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by patapong 133 days ago
Is "Click" the most prescient movie on what it means to be human in the age of AI?
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kybernetikos 133 days ago
What about Dark Star? Humans strapped to an AI bomb that they have to persuade not to kill them all.
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zh3 133 days ago
"Let there be light".

I encourage those who have never heard of it to at least look it up and know it was John Carpenter's first movie.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carpenter

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noisy_boy 132 days ago
Long before this AI hoopla, this has been one of my favorite lines. Short, simple and terrifying:

    Talk to the bomb.
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rudasn 132 days ago
Someone quoted Idiocracy here the other day. "But it's hot electrolytes!"
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chrisjj 133 days ago
Possibly! But I vote The Creator.
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levanten 133 days ago
La Bete (The Beast) by Bertrand Bonello was also quite on point I thought.
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