timtyler comments on Singularity Institute mentioned on Franco-German TV - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 07 November 2011 10:16:39PM *  0 points [-]

The clip is from the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still, as it says under the clip.

The plot of that is actually about alien technology, rather than human technology gone wrong.

Comment author: loup-vaillant 08 November 2011 09:14:00AM 0 points [-]

And here I was thinking : "wait a minute, one second they talk about AI, and the next they show a Grey-Goo accident!?"

Comment author: timtyler 08 November 2011 05:36:03PM *  1 point [-]

The nanotech bugs do come from a large robot in the movie - and the clip does show machines taking over the world in the face of human resistance.

Comment author: loup-vaillant 09 November 2011 10:17:01AM 0 points [-]

I suppose you mean that large humanoid robots are supposed to signal AI? I have to say, I didn't get that clue. I only saw that robot as food for the nano-bugs, not any different from the big metal doors in the military base.