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Computer Prof: Handing Off Risky Operations to AI Would Be Stupid

When everything went wrong in Space Odyssey 2001, the cause was faulty programming, not the computer deciding to take over, he says.
When everything went wrong in Space Odyssey 2001, the cause was faulty programming, not the computer deciding to take over, he says. Read More ›
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Prometheus (2012): Oops. Our Alien Creators Now Want to Kill Us

What should have been an awful revelation degenerates into what seems like the dumbest scene ever filmed
It’s not even clear how the crew knows that the alien creator wants to destroy humanity, let alone why. Read More ›
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Sci-fi Film Explores Idea That Earth’s Life Was Seeded From Space

Prometheus 2012 offers an intriguing premise: ancient civilizations were told in mysterious ways of a habitable moon in a distant galaxy (Part 1 of 4)
The corporation funding the mission to investigate the moon in Prometheus (2012) may have a different agenda from what the crew supposes. Read More ›