Is anyone else tired of storylines which paint artificial intelligences, such as that depicted in the movie "Transcendence", as somehow being this malevolent force? Granted, it obviously turns out that that was never the case with the AI; clearly it hints that the Farraday Cage in the garden protected some of the nanites from the virus, and that they would spread again and continue their efforts to improve the planet before the virus upload. Yet the characterization of the "evil AI" was there nonetheless, coming from the way the humans fighting it in the film [the ones who developed and uploaded the virus] reacted to it. Before seeing the film, the trailers hinted that something profiund was going to come of the AI's power. Instead, we were denied a fiction of what the world could be like from this technology, and just went back to the same old "we fear what we don't understand and we're also scared of the future and progress" kinda story......
Any others' thoughts?
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