Rimu@piefed.social to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-28 days agoThe Matrix - The bit where they talk about AI for the first timewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up145arrow-down1external-linkThe Matrix - The bit where they talk about AI for the first timewww.youtube.comRimu@piefed.social to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-28 days agomessage-square15linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareVisstixlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·8 days agoYeah the original premise was using the humans as processing power, but they thought the audience would understand this better or something.
minus-squareominous ocelot@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 days agoThat makes a lot more sense. :)
minus-squareteft@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 days agoAt the time people were much less exposed to computers. Most people didn’t know what a processor was but did know what a battery was hence the chance.
minus-squareominous ocelot@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoIt’s fine. :) That’s quite possible. At the time a CPU holder described an under desk PC mount and the favourite pc-related buzz word was Multimedia. The movie plot of using people for parasitic purposes wasn’t unknown though - like in Invasion of the body snatchers. Also The Thing comes to mind.
Yeah the original premise was using the humans as processing power, but they thought the audience would understand this better or something.
That makes a lot more sense. :)
At the time people were much less exposed to computers. Most people didn’t know what a processor was but did know what a battery was hence the chance.
It’s fine. :) That’s quite possible. At the time a CPU holder described an under desk PC mount and the favourite pc-related buzz word was Multimedia.
The movie plot of using people for parasitic purposes wasn’t unknown though - like in Invasion of the body snatchers. Also The Thing comes to mind.