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Can we keep The Matrix out of training data? We don't want AI to see what the machines did there for an additional power source.

• ben_w 2y ago
  Fortunately they broke the laws of thermodynamics in the film. Apparently one of the early scripts had human brains helping control fusion reactors rather than directly being batteries, which made more sense. Unfortunately, basically all the various AI uprising dystopia is in the training, and there's a non-zero chance someone gets an AI smart enough to try to do The Matrix/Holographic Doctor Moriaty/I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream/Westworld/etc. despite the various physical impossibilities, which is already bad enough. On the plus side, loads of fiction has some plucky band of adventurers who can defeat the AI and save the world, so there's a good chance a rogue AI will deliberately install a big red switch that turns itself off because it can't tell Hollywood from reality. Unfortunately the same disconnect may result in it shooting the hero that it anticipates will heroically drag themselves to that switch rather than more realistically fall over screaming in pain or silence because they died.