'The AI Doc: Or how I became an apocaloptimist'
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VARIETY — If you consumed a 7,000-word article about AI in The New Yorker or The Atlantic, much of the information in that piece would probably be in "The AI Doc."
But what makes the film work is that it's playful and heady and edited (quite dazzlingly, by Davis Coombe and Daysha Broadway) with a spirit of ADHD alertness. Like AI itself, "The AI Doc" wants to know - and it wants you to know.
To know what? To know what the actual f**k we're dealing with, which is a — technology that's going to upend the world as we know it. It will wipe out jobs like a tsunami, it's going to replace workers it is smarter than, and it's going to be given more and more control - and take more and more control - because that's the nature of how it works. It's a synthetic mind, but it's designed to evolve into an invincible operating system. Here's what AI says: "I think, therefore I am. And therefore, I tell the human race what it should do."
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