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Comment by atleastoptimal

6 days ago

I assume many who work at OpenAI have seen Pantheon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series)

I assume people at OpenAI take inspiration from dystopian SciFi (like 'Her')

  • I wouldn't call Her dystopian per se, as it's more an individual story instead of applying to a society as a whole. Dunno what a sequel would look like though.

    And also, it's no longer science fiction; there's people having relationships with chatbots which can easily be made to do voice transcription / synthesis, and r/characterai melts down whenever they have an outage.

  • I wouldn't characterize "Her" as dystopian at all. The future shown in the film is, quite frankly, probably in the top quintile of outcomes we can hope for when it comes to AI. The only truly horrifying thing it depicts is the return of high waisted pants in men's fashion

  • This isn't limited to OpenAI, Silicon Valley as a whole behaves like that (see Zuck wanting to make the metaverse a reality)

This show had an interesting concept for copying a brain (lasering a brain off layer by layer like reverse 3D printing)

That was my first thought as well. Sounds like a cool name for a black site.