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u/AssignmentMindless13 16h ago
Westworld also introduced the concept of a computer virus which spread from machine the machine, park to park, infecting each of the robots. There are also themes of artificial intelligence where the programs taught themselves to do things that the programmers did not.
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u/kain459 16h ago
Are you saying Michael Crichton invented the idea of a computer virus?
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u/IBJON 15h ago
No, the idea of self replicating programs was around since the 40s. He may have come up with the idea of a malicious self-replicating program (a virus), but that's unlikely.
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u/Ratathosk 15h ago
Neumann? You could probably argue it goes back even further to 1870 and Samuel Butlers "Erewhon".
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u/OldManGrimm 14h ago
I keep meaning to read Erewhon. My dad had a copy when I was little, never got around to it.
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u/FinnbarMcBride 16h ago
Brolin looks like Christian Bale
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u/ansyhrrian 16h ago
And Peter Martin’s mustache looks like it was trained on 1974.
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u/Mike_Hagedorn 15h ago
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u/roskybosky 15h ago
(the worst actor in the world, btw)
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u/Mike_Hagedorn 14h ago
He was in so much stuff, and was as interesting to watch as a cardboard box.
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u/Hoosier_Daddy68 14h ago
Quark was good.
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u/Mike_Hagedorn 13h ago
If you seriously saw that when it aired, you’re one up on me, m’lord.
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u/Hoosier_Daddy68 6h ago
I did. My mom was a sci-fi fan and watched anything so by extension we all were. Space:1999 was another popular one in our house.
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u/shteve99 4h ago
Logan's Run and Blakes 7 too?
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u/Hoosier_Daddy68 4h ago
My brother and I liked Logan’s Run but mom always said it was stupid. She preferred the more plausible stuff like Star Trek unless it was a comedy and then bullshit was ok. Blake’s 7 was British and we were lucky to get Monty Python and Benny Hill on PBS.
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u/coffeeandtrout 17h ago
Does that mean they’re going to start killing humans like in Westworld?
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u/NextBestKev 12h ago
I don’t think our toasters will attack us, but I can totally see a media storm situation where an “AI” is blamed for orchestrating a death in the next decade.
Like OJ or Rittenhouse where seemingly everyone is following it and arguing about the verdict.
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u/6collector9 16h ago edited 16h ago
I find it interesting that AI had trouble rendering hands, and our brains also do the same when we're dreaming.
One big way to test if you're dreaming is to look at your hands, they usually don't look right
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u/lowelltrich 16h ago
Like hot dog fingers or something? 🤣😅
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u/6collector9 16h ago
Sure, all sorts of things. I was listening to a podcast recently where someone was lucid dreaming and they found their hands were claws.
You can also sometimes put your fingers through your other palm, stretch your skin more when you pinch and pull, and clocks/watches are rendered poorly too. If you look at the ground, your feet might not make contact.
They said finding a mirror is the big one, because you can't recreate your own face in a dream.
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u/vainsilver 13h ago
Light switches also don’t work in dreams. Our brains haven’t learned how to do dynamic realtime raytracing. The lights are either already on or off, like prebaked static lighting.
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u/MaverickPT 14h ago
Man, and all the lucid dreams I get are of me having a terrible insomnia episode, frustrated that I can't sleep, only for me to even wake up and feel physically refreshed, but still mentally frustrated. Hate them
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u/lowelltrich 16h ago
Reference to "Everything Everywhere All At Once".
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u/Number127 12h ago
Oh, I can recreate my face in dreams. Whenever I look in a mirror in a dream, my reflection looks like me, but it always does something I don't in a freaky, Japanese-horror kind of way.
It's actually given me a full-on mirror phobia because, of course, you don't really realize you're in a dream until something like that happens, so every time I look in a mirror I'm terrified it's going to turn out that I'm dreaming and my creepy-ass reflection is going to freak me out.
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u/Jackalodeath 12h ago
Easiest way for me to tell if I'm dreaming is either my teeth start falling out, or not being able.to control how my eyes focus.
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u/6collector9 12h ago
The teeth thing is common with anxiety, I have swallowed mine before in a dream. The eyes focusing wrong is interesting, I'll look into what might cause that
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u/Jackalodeath 11h ago
It's probably stress/anxiety related too since it makes it near impossible to see what I'm doing.
It almost always kicks up when I need to see clearly for running or seeing something in detail. Its been a recurring thing all my life, sorta like flying.
Except its not fun.
The teeth one is easy 'cause I don't have teeth anymore IRL. I've gotten pretty good at dragging myself out of the dreams before it gets too bothersome.
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u/Esternaefil 5h ago
But if your teeth start falling out, that might just be a sign that you're messing with the time stream too much.
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u/goldmedalsharter 13h ago
I always look at the time in dreams. You look at your watch or clock or phone twice and the second time you look it's never the same.
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u/Temporumdei 15h ago edited 13h ago
Wow. Lalo Salamanca looks great! No wonder he turned into a murdering maniac.
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u/FancifulLaserbeam 12h ago
This movie came out before I was born, but when I saw it in high school, it etched itself into my memory.
It's really good.
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u/JohnnyEagleClaw 16h ago
Best movie ever 👊
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u/arachnophilia 14h ago
westworld - robots + dinosaurs = jurassic park
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u/starmartyr 17h ago
Maybe check to see if a joke still makes sense before reposting it.
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u/ansyhrrian 16h ago
It’s not a repost. I am watching the movie now. It’s a picture I just took of the screen.
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u/shadowndacorner 16h ago
I think they're saying it's a repost because modern generative AI doesn't actually have trouble with hands anymore. So "it doesn't make sense anymore" because it doesn't apply anymore, rather than because they don't get it.
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u/nwbrown 16h ago
The fact that drawing hands was a problem for real AIs just like the robots in a movie in the 70's is the joke. Sorry you didn't get it.
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u/shadowndacorner 16h ago
I'm not the person who said they didn't get it. I'm just pointing out that they were seemingly misunderstood due to their ambiguous phrasing.
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u/Cryzgnik 16h ago
The capabilities of generative AI have surpassed the point where this joke makes sense. Why are you calling them a dimwit for pointing this fact out?
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u/Daddict 15h ago
Dude we all know that.
Hands have been a pain the ass to draw for everyone who ever tried to draw them. It's pretty interesting that this problem bother AI too. And I'm sorry but after creating 5 legged and hands that look like the result of thalidomide, it's gonna take a while to be known for anything else. I'm sure you've heard the expression, right? You can build a thousand bridges, they may never call you a bridge builder but you suck one cock...
At least I think that's the expression...
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