Apparently, instead of batteries the original idea was to have them be part of a brain based neural net which makes a lot more sense than batteries. But this was felt to be too complicated.
Exactly. Why they gave up on the human collective neural net movie plot and replaced it with the human batteries one is beyond me. It makes no sense, humans make terrible batteries.
If the machines from the Matrix needed to use some mammals as batteries, why not just use cows instead of humans? They'd be much more complacent with living in the Matrix, grazing on virtual fields, and less likely to wise up and try to escape and rebel against the machines since they're not very intelligent and the machines would need a lot less processing power to simulate a realistic cow world than the world in 1999 for humans.
To wit, if someone has access to a lot of GPU compute, could
you please use gen-AI to re-make the Matrix but with the characters as cows, I'd pay to watch it. Would definitely beat Matrix Resurrections or whatever that cash grab turd was called.
It's an easy analogy to say in <10 seconds that non-technical people can understand. Had they not mentioned "bioelectricity" at all, it might have been harder to nitpick.
I came up with this explanation to make me enjoy the movie more: The world outside the matrix is not the real world, but just another layer by the machines for obfuscation. In the real real world humans are actually used as processing units but since it is easier for the humans to accept and not ask further questions, the intermediate level with humans as batteries is introduced by the machines.
Wow, it would make so much more sense. Humans could be doing processing for AI when they are asleep in virtual world and what they consider their waking hours with free will would be actually a dream so they can regenerate. AI would be syncing their dreams and providing structure to maintain illusion that it's a real world.
Isn't there a long-standing myth that humans only use 10% of their brainpower? They could've used that to explain that the machines were stealing the other 90%. Anyone can understand that in 5 seconds.
Of course that means anyone unplugged from the Matrix would immediately become an S-tier genius. And how the hell do you write that?
If the machines from the Matrix needed to use some mammals as batteries, why not just use cows instead of humans? They'd be much more complacent with living in the Matrix, grazing on virtual fields, and less likely to wise up and try to escape and rebel against the machines since they're not very intelligent and the machines would need a lot less processing power to simulate a realistic cow world than the world in 1999 for humans.
To wit, if someone has access to a lot of GPU compute, could you please use gen-AI to re-make the Matrix but with the characters as cows, I'd pay to watch it. Would definitely beat Matrix Resurrections or whatever that cash grab turd was called.