Comment by siva7
17 hours ago
Sounds like the plot from the movie matrix. Only difference between the movie and our real timeline - the ai didn't need to enslave humans, we willingly chose enslavement by ai for ourselves by continuing our google subscription.
It also sounds like Ready Player One, where the real world is so shit, everyone spends all their time in VR, using rented equipment, making nearly everyone a slave to the corporations.
The people building AI must be deeply unhappy, and won't be satisfied until they impose their misery on everyone.
Ultra nerdy point: in the matrix it’s revealed that humans did in fact choose to join it. And the meta point was that most of them still would choose it over reality [1] every day.
[1] reality is also somewhat in question in the films universe
Is this from the original trilogy?
It's from Matrix Reloaded, when the architect explains past failures of the matrix and that they only succeeded when they figured out that they had to offer a choice, even if that choice was subconscious. That nearly everyone accepted the matrix, and the few that did not escaped to Zion. That's the whole point of Neo, to manage the outliers and keep the system going.
At least that's my recollection. I've watched the matrix a few times :)
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There was a guy named Cypher who betrayed the humans and cut a deal with the robots to live in the matrix as a rich guy. He fully accepts the steak he eats is not “real” but he enjoys it nonetheless
Nothing in the original trilogy specified or suggested that humans as a group willingly joined the Matrix to begin with.
One individual human (Cypher) did choose to be plugged back in, though it didn't work out for him.