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

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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.

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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.