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Mrs. Davis
2023 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Tara Hernandez, Damon Lindelof
ComedyDramaScience FictionFantasy
Sister Simone partners with her ex-boyfriend on a globe-spanning journey to destroy Mrs. Davis, a powerful artificial intelligence.
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> Then you have people that start using AI as their guiding light, with every question on how to live and interact with others going though the AI. And even people replacing human relationships with AI. We don't know the full costs this will impart on us, but there are plenty of dark whispers occurring.
That last line makes me suspect you've seen this, so for everyone else, a short story about a page long: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yvain-thewhisperingearring.html
Also there was an 8-episode miniseries set in a world where everyone uses an AI called "Mrs. Davis" for everything (shows a weird world where most people can't make decisions without it, though Mrs. Davis is shown as a benevolent super-AI), except the main character who distrusts it and wants to shut it down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Davis (there is also a second religious plotline intertwined with it, which adds to the weirdness, but I don't think it detracts from the story)
I can swear by anything that Lindelof does for TV
Lost, The Leftovers, Watchmen, Mrs Davis: they are all great
Can't wait for Lanterns.
(His movies career is... less good. He shines in serialized stories I guess)
Reminds me of the main character of the show Mrs Davis. She insists on calling the ai it through the entire show.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14759574/
I'd be mildly surprised if the writers or creators of the TV show Mrs. Davis weren't in part consciously influenced by Simone Weil.
Sounds a lot like the "Mrs Davis" TV Show.
Anyhow, this is not a good idea. We are having issues with their scores and performance declining. We have to find the root cause, not try to patch it with another band-aid by saying "Here, lets try this OTHER NEW THING", on top of the hundreds of other tools students already have.
Interesting. I hadn't read any fan theories about it and hadn't spotted that it was after a mention of Simone's mum. There's a few days until episode 8 is out, so I'll have to wait to see what mysteries are revealed.
It doesn't sit right with me that Simone's mum would be Mrs Davis' creator as she hasn't shown any computing credentials, but is more into practical engineering and tricks.
Watching Peacock's "Mrs. Davis" makes me think of this movie. Albeit, it is very whimsical take on the aftermath of an AI taking over the world with main character being a nun.
Would love to see a more up to date remake of "Colossus" that strives for a decent level of realism.
This is fascinating, because the current TV show _Mrs. Davis_ has references to hippo meat which I think really cements that it's a parallel universe.
A friend of mine just does one service at a time, and it's low-key fairly brilliant. There's a bit of headache with installing / uninstalling apps on televisions and having to log into things once a month or quarter or however long it takes him, but the kernel of the idea is that there are generally only a few new, good shows worth watching for any given network, but all the good shows are roughly equally distributed between networks.
So instead of paying $10 a month to Disney for Mandalorian, Wandavision, Loki, an additional $10 for Peacock for Mrs. Davis, Bel Air, and Poker Face, plus however much else for HBOMax, Netflix, Hulu, etc., he could just pay one network $10 a month, binge the couple of good shows that they had, and then instead of waiting months for the next thing to come out, unsubscribe and switch to another network. Lather, rinse, repeat.
He isn't as current, and sometimes it's hard to chat about whatever the current new thing is, but society has effectively already given up on the concept of the whole nation tuning in to any one thing and it being the topic of watercooler conversations for a myriad of reasons.
Note: He has children, and I have no idea how he handles this other than to note that he also has a digital antenna, so some shows are "always available" (or at least as much as is allowed for)