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Friday Fun Thread for September 16, 2022

Be advised; this thread is not for serious in depth discussion of weighty topics, this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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I don't remember but has the sub talked about the TV show Devs? It was made in 2020 and was a small-budget sci-fi show using about AI as a predictive algorithm. There were some elements of disbelief, but I think it raises some neat questions regarding the application of advanced AI and it's ramifications. It's just a single season as well but it's rather well made though definitely small budget.

I'm probably late to the party, but I found it enjoyable, so I thought it's worth checking out.

As piece of entertainment, it wasn't bad. My major niggle, apart from the core conceit was the awkward diverse casting attempts - having a woman play a boy, shoehorning in a fat old black guy as a software dev..

Neat take on the clockwork universe idea, but we now know better.

I enjoyed it a lot, I wish there were more shows like it. It was quantum computing, not AI though.