Comment by stonogo
2 years ago
The difference is between inaccuracy of a weapon hitting a target and inaccuracy of target selection in the first place.
Remember the scene in Men In Black where the recruita do target practice? They were all accurate at hitting what they shot at but only Will Smith's character was accurate at selecting a target. This AI chooses targets; it does not fire weapons.
Haha having recently rewatched MIB with my daughter after ~15 years, I don't think Will Smith correctly selected the target... :'D
I think you very much missed the context of that scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORHAP6duw9E
The job is not "shoot aliens". It's manage aliens, including Earth's population of legal resident aliens (like the taxi driver who he delivers a baby for). The Big Bad of the film is indeed posing as a human, and Smith's character runs into an endless procession of innocent (or at least non-capital-crime) aliens he should not shoot along the way.
There's a reason he gets hired over all the military folks in the scene immediately blasting away at the aliens in the shooting range.
Observes and kills a child carrying the science book.
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>> There's a reason he gets hired over all the military folks in the scene immediately blasting away at the aliens in the shooting range.
Yes, because he's Will Smith.
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"Just following orders" huh? I can't believe I'm being offered Will Smith analogies as apologia for an actual genocide. This is one of the most of awful (in all senses quality, content, intention, execution) posts I've ever read in my entire life.
I’m fairly certain you’ve completely misread the post.
It’s a criticism of letting the AI pick targets.