BBC Greenlights “Real Life ‘Black Mirror'” Doc About Artificial Intelligence
The BBC is making 'Black Mirror'-style shows with Chris McCausland & Hannah Fry on AI & tech as science chief Jack Bootle talks artificial intelligence
I will be incredibly disappointed if Hannah Fry turns into an AI apologist. Just as long as this stays focused on how fucking dumb it is, she’s on the right path. She is brilliant; hopefully she doesn’t fall prey to the propaganda.
There is a time and place where AI can be useful... but the way it is used today is pointless and wasteful.
Ideally, she can dunk on how shit it is now, but also talk about the super high-tech ways we can hope to see it implemented in the near future.
You're missing the really obvious angle given that this is the BBC. She doesn't need to come down on whether it's good or bad at all. She simply needs to show that it's something interesting to look at and explain how it works which certainly is maths.
Giving today’s AI slop coverage at all provides some bias for AI slop, especially if the coverage ends on any kind of positive note or doesn’t also highlight the extreme damages AI data centers cause. AI theory is all maths; AI practice (at least currently) is the widespread destruction of natural resources to increase the value of a handful of individuals solely on paper. Not explaining that makes it look good because why wouldn’t we improve AI relationships because the math looks solid! (Or whatever other example AI slop would provide if relationships doesn’t reasonate) There are recent videos of Hannah Fry explaining how to get value out of LLMs which doesn’t bode well.
Her hello world book was full of rral life examples of terrible AI uses.
Love my documentary "Don't Build The Torment Engine: The Real True Story of the Building of the Torment Engine" because I get to live it and then watch it as a funny show.
Hannah Fry is amazing in everything she does.
The movie "Her" went from science fiction to documentary pretty damn fast.