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Comment by satvikpendem

8 hours ago

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

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throwanem  8 hours 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  8 hours ago

    You're right, not necessarily AI, more so what an omniscient and omnipotent device could do especially in the wrong hands.

    • observationist  7 hours 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.

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