With The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (now on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video), filmmaker Daniel Roher – co-directing with Charlie Tyrell – may be searching for the silver lining around a mushroom cloud. The Oscar-winning director behind Navalny finds his way into a macro-subject via a micro-subject: Should he and his wife be bringing a child into a world burdened by an uncertain future, wrought by the development of artificial intelligence? As the title implies, he tries to find a happy medium between the two extreme outcomes of AI – absolute destruction of the human race, or utopia – as he explores what may be the defining topic of our current era.
The Gist: Daniel Roher can’t criticize the human race for its tendency to “rush into things without thinking them through.” After all, he and his
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