Yesterday, we talked about how AI bad guys have become a bit old hat in our current environment of ChatGPT and Sora, and Character.ai. But as tiresome as many recent iterations of this character have become, there are still many who came before, and their creators got much of the trope right. Sometimes these baddies are terrifying, focused on eradicating humanity through whatever violent means necessary, while others are funny and confused or just seeking a sense of identity and stability.If you're looking to create the next big AI villain, start by looking at the classics that have worked.HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey) - YouTube www.youtube.com He is the blueprint. HAL, the AI program leading the film's mission to Jupiter, is directed to complete the mission at any cost, even if that means lying to his crew, which goes against another of his directives. This conflict leads to a breakdown in his reasoning, causing him to malfunction.Stanley Kubrick was something of a fortune teller when it came to intelligent machines, telling Playboy that we were entering a "mechanarchy" even then (via Scraps from the Loft)."Looking into the distant future," he said, "I suppose it's not inconceivable that a semisentient robot-computer subculture could evolve that might one day decide it no longer needed man. You've probably heard the story about the ultimate computer of the future: For months, scientists think of the first question to pose to it, and finally they hit on the right one: 'Is there a God?'...
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