[ProllyInfamous]

I just finished re-watching EotS — really advanced tech portrayal for a late-90s film.

Quote (from movie): "just think, all this technology is already twenty years old..."

Much better than The Conversation, but the links were uncanny (including Hackman's line: "yeah this has been my office where I do things for a long time*" — and it's the same set[up]).

EotS honestly has the best death finale scene I've ever seen (not being hyperbolic, the best). Don't want to spoil it }:D ------>

[dizhn]

I love a few scenes. My favorite is the mob restaurant scene with the "tape" business. The whole thing is great.

However in terms of tech, there's the scene where they have CCTV footage from the lingerie store where the top dog wants the operator to see the other side of the package and asks if it's possible. The answer is not the typical CSI "zoom in .. there!" but goes like "the computer can take us to the other side?" , "it can hypothesize". Still not exactly super accurate in terms of possibility but I think AI nowadays would actually do precisely that, hypothesize and show you something.

[ProllyInfamous]

>the mob restaurant scene

Best sudden-shootout scene in any movie ever, IMHO.

>hypotehsizing

LLMs can definitely hypothesize. I'm about a third of the way into Cormac McCarthy's major works, and he definitely makes several interesting arguments on what he considers [enough] for consciousness [to exist]. His short essay on Benzene's discovery [0] is quite interesting (about languageless communication) if you can entertain œtherial out of body influence(s)...

[0] The Kukule Problem