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throwanem 4 hours ago

Eh. I enjoyed it enormously and I do likewise recommend it, but its story isn't related to AI (either the concept of its moment or the technology of ours) even slightly, nor trying to be, or at least not in any way I saw. It was pretty open with its themes, so I would expect that one to have been pretty noticeable if it was present alongside the questions of reality, artifice, grief, and simulationism with which the miniseries does concern itself.

satvikpendem 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You're right, not necessarily AI, more so what an omniscient and omnipotent device could do especially in the wrong hands.

observationist 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What's the difference between the idle imaginings of a god's mind and a universe scale simulation?

I always got advanced AI vibes from Devs, that it was a mind interfacing with reality in some sort of weird inception / simulation / manifestation way.

satvikpendem 2 hours ago | parent [-]

In the show the device is not autonomous, humans use it.

observationist 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That can be a type of mind, though? It can also be a type of interface - a tap into a system not fully understood, controlling the perspective or view but not the process. The whole "mind of god" Deus/Devs, etc - I think it's left ambiguous on purpose for the hook but I always took it to be an AI flavored story at the core.