“There’s no way to get there without a breakthrough,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.

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    10 months ago

    In fact, the original script of The Matrix had the machines harvest humans to be used as ultra efficient compute nodes. Executive meddling led to the dumb battery idea .

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      10 months ago

      I love their original idea. Having your brainpower sapped and also being part of a collective dream that creates the world around you is such a cooler and more philosophical idea.

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      10 months ago

      Yea my head cannon is the humans just have no fucking idea what the machines are doing with them and that there was only one movie

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      10 months ago

      This was a far smarter premise. I wonder if it would have been as popular had they kept it.