. "Pretty good movie but I can't figure out why everyone told me to watch it."Altman is just being facetious about that last bit, since it should be pretty clear why his followers asked him to check it out.
The Alex Garland-directed film tells the story of a computer programmer who wins the chance to visit the estate of his employer's reclusive tech CEO . When he arrives, the CEO asks him to determine if his autonomous, humanoid robot's AI is truly conscious by administering a Turing test of sorts during his stay.
Complications ensue, and it becomes unclear how dangerous the AI might be, and who's testing who. Sound like it might be relevant to Altman's line of work?Altman could stand to adhere some of the movie's well-trod cautions on AI, as real life already seems to be reflecting fiction. Earlier this year, one man