In the stable of great villain characters, AI has been on the roster for decades and has worked well. HAL 9000 terrorized Dave in 2001. Evil robots and Skynet were the big baddies throughout all of The Terminator series. The Matrix saw Neo overthrowing the computer overlords that trapped humanity.Classics, all. But the times have changed, and AI hasn't been playing so well with modern-day audiences.As The Hollywood Reporter points out, evil AI is pretty boring these days. The outlet points to films like M3gan 2.0, Tron: Ares, and the latest Mission: Impossible as examples of films with AI antagonists that flopped. The disconnect is that these films arrived at what should have been the perfect cultural moment for AI anxiety, as it still remains a very likely threat—maybe not in the Terminator or Ex Machina murdery way, but in the sense that it's a tool with many vulnerabilities that could be exploited. - YouTube www.youtube.com AI as a Character Representing AI on film presents unique challenges because movies need characters, but turning AI into a fresh character proves difficult, whether you make it an ominous display or a killer robot. The Hollywood Reporter notes that these portrayals often come across as either recycled or ridiculous. We've been watching variations of HAL's red eye since 1968. Mission: Impossible made "The Entity" a blue swirly graphic. The upcoming film Mercy will use Rebecca Ferguson's face as its AI villain, but she's still just on a screen.In reality, the large language models...
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