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Tommy Byrd
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💻Engineer @ GitHub. 🎹Musician. 🎥Photographer. Used to spend my nights in AV rooms.
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I’m sure its lost on plenty of people, but the whole sentient AI thing in fiction is almost always meant to be an allegory for exactly this: www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-c...
Quote from wired article: I don't think anything resembling The Terminator is really going to happen. There certainly aren't going to be genocidal wars waged by machines a few generations from now. The stories function more on a symbolic level, and that's why people key into them. They're about us fighting our own tendency toward dehumanization. When a cop has no compassion, when a shrink has no empathy, they've become machines in human form. Technology is changing the whole fabric of social interaction. We're absorbing our machines in a symbiotic way, evolving to become one with our own devices, and that's going to continue indefinitely.
April 3, 2024 at 9:07 PM