uni English course, today we had presentations about AI. People quoted the Hitchhiker's Guide and 2001: A Space Odyssey but no one in the room had seen Wargames, a film actually relevant to the topic
↪ The AI "experts" warn us of is some kind of far-off hypothetical god-AI while the already existing narrow AI already has the power to screw us royally, but I guess that wouldn't be a cool futuristic science fiction scenario, would it
↪ homophobia, tech-bro-ism
actually I'm just mad about the one dude who told a presenter his body language was "gay" (teacher: "there's nothing wrong with being gay"), well, "feminine" (in the distance, sirens) and then decided that "I had to say it that way because that's the way people learn best" was the hill he wanted to die on
↪ I wrote this as kind of a joke but I do believe that people can learn a lot more about AI from Wargames than the other two films, because the AI it portrays isn't incomprehensibly intelligent, but very realistic. Also it isn't perfect because the people who built it weren't, and they know it. The conclusion of the film is obviously simplified, because we don't know what we would actually do in a situation like that