Dumb characters really put me off in most movies, but in this case I think it was fine. Gemma and her assistant’s jobs are both on the line if M3GAN doesn’t pan out, so they have an incentive to turn a blind eye to that. Also, their suspicions that M3GAN was dangerous weren’t blatantly obvious such that people who lacked security mindsets (as some people do in real life) couldn’t miss them.
I was thinking the characters were all being very stupid taking big risks when they created this generally intelligent agentic protype M3GAN, but given that we live in a world where a whole lot of industry players are trying to create AGI while not even paying lip service to alignment concerns made me willing to accept that the characters’ actions, while stupid, were plausible enough to still feel realistic.
Yes, it’s really hard to believe that people are that stupid, even when you’re surrounded by very bright people being exactly that stupid.
And the characters in the film haven’t even had people screaming at them about their obvious mistakes morning til night for the last twenty years. At that point the film would fail willing suspension of disbelief so hard it would be unwatchable.
Dumb characters really put me off in most movies, but in this case I think it was fine. Gemma and her assistant’s jobs are both on the line if M3GAN doesn’t pan out, so they have an incentive to turn a blind eye to that. Also, their suspicions that M3GAN was dangerous weren’t blatantly obvious such that people who lacked security mindsets (as some people do in real life) couldn’t miss them.
I was thinking the characters were all being very stupid taking big risks when they created this generally intelligent agentic protype M3GAN, but given that we live in a world where a whole lot of industry players are trying to create AGI while not even paying lip service to alignment concerns made me willing to accept that the characters’ actions, while stupid, were plausible enough to still feel realistic.
Yes, it’s really hard to believe that people are that stupid, even when you’re surrounded by very bright people being exactly that stupid.
And the characters in the film haven’t even had people screaming at them about their obvious mistakes morning til night for the last twenty years. At that point the film would fail willing suspension of disbelief so hard it would be unwatchable.