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Elon Musk gets his AI ideas from whatever sci-fi movie he saw last (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

…huh, you’re right (for the movie — the shitty AI image is a bad amalgamation of a trench coat and something like the shoulders of a duster). maybe the fucker was thinking of fallout or some shit.

and now I’ve convinced myself to go dig up my duster

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This wasn’t from a place of knowledge. I made a social read. Musk is absolutely the type to call a trilby a fedora and feel smug about it; I extrapolated from that.