Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor
by misnome on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:13AM
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The story goes that the studio executives wanted it changed to energy because they thought that viewers wouldn't understand using brains for computing power. Hard references to this fact are hard to find, though https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv... seems to collect a couple of secondary sources.
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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor
by jnurmine on Monday April 01, 2019 @02:09PM
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Strange that viewers would struggle to understand using captive brains for computing power, but would have no problems with a whole lot of other concepts from the movie...
Then again, the plot is the usual Hero's Journey (Campbell) like the majority of Hollywood blockbusters tends to be, but I guess the devil is in the details (illusory matrix/maya, recursive resurrection/enlightenment of Neo, the Christian theme of consuming an apple (pill) from the tree of knowledge and the subsequent expulsion from "paradise", etc.)
The Matrix trilogy is good on many levels, but I can't buy the "people used as batteries is easier to understand than people as compute accelerators". There are plenty of other, perhaps more relevant, places to dumben down in the Matrix if one goes down that road.