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Also, the show Devs (2020), by Alex Garland. The joke is "Devs Ex Machina", Ex Machina being another film of his.

throwanem 7mo ago
Eh. I enjoyed it enormously and I do likewise recommend it, but its story isn't related to AI (either the concept of its moment or the technology of ours) even slightly, nor trying to be, or at least not in any way I saw. It was pretty open with its themes, so I would expect that one to have been pretty noticeable if it was present alongside the questions of reality, artifice, grief, and simulationism with which the miniseries does concern itself.
- satvikpendem 7mo ago
  You're right, not necessarily AI, more so what an omniscient and omnipotent device could do especially in the wrong hands.
  - observationist 7mo ago
    What's the difference between the idle imaginings of a god's mind and a universe scale simulation? I always got advanced AI vibes from Devs, that it was a mind interfacing with reality in some sort of weird inception / simulation / manifestation way.
    - satvikpendem 7mo ago
      In the show the device is not autonomous, humans use it.
      - observationist 7mo ago
        That can be a type of mind, though? It can also be a type of interface - a tap into a system not fully understood, controlling the perspective or view but not the process. The whole "mind of god" Deus/Devs, etc - I think it's left ambiguous on purpose for the hook but I always took it to be an AI flavored story at the core.
        satvikpendem 7mo ago
        Maybe. The plot itself is based on a short story that Garland read, both the 2007 original [0] and its 2022 rewrite [1]. Qntm is great and their latest book, There Is No Antimemetics Division, recently was on HN as well [2]. [0] https://qntm.org/responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibility [1] https://qntm.org/responsibilit https://qntm.org/responsibilit [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853
        observationist 7mo ago
        qntm has a wonderfully strange mind.
  - hackable_sand 7mo ago
    "in the wrong hands" that's fucking funny
- mejutoco 7mo ago
  The way what they discover can predict but only some amount into the future reminds of how context works in ai

Eh. I enjoyed it enormously and I do likewise recommend it, but its story isn't related to AI (either the concept of its moment or the technology of ours) even slightly, nor trying to be, or at least not in any way I saw. It was pretty open with its themes, so I would expect that one to have been pretty noticeable if it was present alongside the questions of reality, artifice, grief, and simulationism with which the miniseries does concern itself.

satvikpendem 7mo ago
You're right, not necessarily AI, more so what an omniscient and omnipotent device could do especially in the wrong hands.
- observationist 7mo ago
  What's the difference between the idle imaginings of a god's mind and a universe scale simulation? I always got advanced AI vibes from Devs, that it was a mind interfacing with reality in some sort of weird inception / simulation / manifestation way.
  - satvikpendem 7mo ago
    In the show the device is not autonomous, humans use it.
    - observationist 7mo ago
      That can be a type of mind, though? It can also be a type of interface - a tap into a system not fully understood, controlling the perspective or view but not the process. The whole "mind of god" Deus/Devs, etc - I think it's left ambiguous on purpose for the hook but I always took it to be an AI flavored story at the core.
      - satvikpendem 7mo ago
        Maybe. The plot itself is based on a short story that Garland read, both the 2007 original [0] and its 2022 rewrite [1]. Qntm is great and their latest book, There Is No Antimemetics Division, recently was on HN as well [2]. [0] https://qntm.org/responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibility [1] https://qntm.org/responsibilit https://qntm.org/responsibilit [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853
        observationist 7mo ago
        qntm has a wonderfully strange mind.
- hackable_sand 7mo ago
  "in the wrong hands" that's fucking funny
mejutoco 7mo ago
The way what they discover can predict but only some amount into the future reminds of how context works in ai