"I'm going to start something which I call 'TruthGPT,' or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe," Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson to be aired later on Monday.
"And I think this might be the best path to safety, in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe, it is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe," he said, according to some excerpts of the interview.
Musk last month registered a firm named X.AI Corp, incorporated in Nevada, according to a state filing. The firm listed Musk as the sole director.
Musk also reiterated his warnings about AI during the interview with Carlson, saying "AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production" according to the excerpts.
"It has the potential of civilizational destruction," he said.
I saw that scene and it stuck with me. :doomer:
I really appreciate the "All of these humans on the front lines of the war are religious fanatics whose only real conviction is to kill", immediately followed by the gruesome reality check of what going up against people who can adjust their economy at the speed of light in real time means in a war.
That was such an emotionally exhausting and true-ringing sequence of events that by the time "give up your flesh" came around and the bomb went off, I didn't blame the machines at all.
Yeah. You got to see how they had the compassion crushed out of them by aggression from the major governments step by step. And even in the end, the Machines made several attempts to make the Matrix a pleasant place to exist, at least according to Smith.
Looking back from decades later - I do appreciate that the second and third movies showed that there were machines who were dissidents and deserters trying to escape whatever life was like in the machine world. The family who were trying to escape in to the matrix bc their kid was deemed redundant and was going to be killed is the one I remember. It broke the idea that the machines were a single monolithic entity that was evil just for the hell of it. And I kind of like the idea of the Matrix as Machine Casablanca where you can kind of hide out.
Actually, now that I think of it, the proximate cause of the war was that the machines, you know, fixed the economy and the presumably still capitalist states refused to accept the loss of their power that would come with accepting the machine's economy. So they nuked 01.
I also enjoyed that, even in the first movie, Mr. Smith definitely had a distinct emotional personality, even if it was somewhat alien to the human characters. He wasn't beep booping, he "hhhated this place, this ZOO, this reality, whatever you want to call it. It's the smell..." :guts-rage:
And his coworkers thought he was weird for taking the job too personally. They never directly said it, but a few times they look at him and you can clearly see them thinking "What is he doing?!"
"IT's the smell... if there is such a thing." hints that he experiences the Matrix as a very alien and likely unpleasant environment. The fact that the agents, even though they have super-human physical prowess, still have to inhabit human bodies and at least partially follow the rules of the simulation to function there suggests that they're not just interacting with the Matrix through a terminal or something, they're really occupying simulated bodies to interact with the simulation in a physical sense. Imagine shoving a human in to the body of an octopus then telling them to go hunt down terrorist hermit crabs in the pacific!
Also, the whole line about some people being so reliant on the system that oppresses them that they would fight to defend it has stuck with me since 1999, and now I see it everywhere.
God I haven't really thought about the Matrix in ages. The metaphor of the world's leaders blackening the sky just to spite a competing economic power, dooming the whole world in the process, feels exactly like what DC is doing in it's war with China.
The characterizations of the agents was one of my favorite parts of the Matrix and some of the best writing in it.
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