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Hollywood: It’s about an experimental AI that—

Me: that fails to converge until the programmer cleans up millions of lines of labeled data? Right! Very suspenseful! Never know if that’s going to work.

Hollywood: you’re fired
Hollywood: the AI has a robot body that—

Me: can’t pick up any objects unless they a placed in a very specific way on a table at just the right height. The struggle is real.

Hollywood: No—
Hollywood: No, the robot can do everything a human can do because—

Me: Because it is being piloted by underpaid overseas laborers. So great that you are bringing awareness to exploitative labor practices. I was worried this movie would just be action and special effects.
Hollywood: The hero must upload their brain and then—

Me: Then realizes we don’t know how the brain works so the brain simulation jus produces random nonsense. Tragic that the brain would be destroyed. I see where you are going. The underpaid laborers are the true heroes!
Hollywood: Didn’t we fire you? Someone call security!
Me, being dragged out of the building: we haven’t even talked about all your time travel paradoxes...
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