#AI#AGI#Dystopias#GodLikeAI#Film#SciFi#Movies#Cinema: "It is strange how these fears, once prominent, have faded into the annals of sci-fi history, but have seen a resurrection of sorts in the growing discussion of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and existential threats from AI. Sure, some fears of AGI and super-intelligent machines are unjustified, but it is interesting that some of these fears may very well have some early roots in these terrifying depictions of Godlike machines. I don’t think that we can learn a lot from these films, but at least they deserve to be revisited by those who are interested in popular culture depictions of AI. The ‘Godlike AI’ phase, though often overlooked, bears some intriguing reflections on humanity’s inherent fears, and hopes from its technological creations." https://www.technollama.co.uk/forgotten-dystopias-the-godlike-ai-that-time-forgot
Why on earth is anyone still publishing or listening to the author of the famous "conceptual mess…The World Is Flat…about economic development… the world isn’t flat, has never been flat, and isn’t likely going to be flat in the future.” https://hbr.org/2007/06/a-flat-world-1
RT @agstrait
This piece is dangerously techno-solutionist and wrong in many places.