[Rinzler89]

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.

[jimbobthrowawy]

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.

[affgrff3]

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.