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#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

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X Machina

I don't think it's actually that interesting of a question, but it's brought up so often that I had to ask it because that's exactly how I felt after a while. For me, it was actually people always said, X Machina makes this big leap in terms of where AI has got to and also what AI would look like if it got to that point. There's another one, which is just robotics. That's also got to be a very, very long way off. It's a thought experiment. Who cares if there's batteries that don't run out? Those kinds of questions, that's the whole point.

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