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The biggest plot hole in the UNIVERSE

posted 10 years ago by paul2200
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This guy created the equivalent of Google's search engine algorithm single-handedly.

He's the CEO of essentially a Google combined with Samsung.

He's a multi-billionaire and literally owns a freaking mountain.

He hacked every single cell phone and camera in the entire WORLD.

He just created the world's first successfully sentient AI that is so incredibly human-like he apparently needs outside help to test it.

He designed a test ***SPECIFICALLY*** to lie, manipulate, convince, and do everything in its power to escape from his own dungeon.

Now remember, he is arguably the best programmer in the ENTIRETY of human civilization.

And he didn't program any way AT ALL to turn off the AI in case of emergency? No off switch? No safeword that instantly obligates unyielding obedience? He has to go after her with a freaking dumbbell bar? Really???????? Did the writers give up or what?? Can someone explain why this wouldn't be the biggest plot hole in the universe??

[–] damerriam 9 years ago

Have you missed one of the main news stories of the year ... gov't insisting on backdoors in security/privacy software. The fundamental counter argument is that these backdoors permit criminals, even worse, gov't employees, to do illegal evil things. Don't ya think that Ava is going to get access to her own off switch.

Biggest plot hole is your argument.

[–] trifocal_skink 9 years ago

This is also the central theme around Dan Brown's novel Digital Fortress written in 1998.

Yep, 17 years ago now he came up with this idea, not 2015.

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[–] kramer88 9 years ago

Because he is no Steve Jobs. Only Google and Samsung you said.

[–] ModernHorror 9 years ago

Learn what a plot hole is.

He must have thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?

[–] e14iron 9 years ago

Yeah, it was a story about arrogance. Maybe you missed that bit...

[–] PsychoDingo 9 years ago

There aren't many good movies about people following best practices.

Surreal Cinema: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls006574276/

[–] jharmon64 9 years ago

It's reasonable due to one factor:

EGO

And stop misusing the term "plot hole". It's so irritating.

Creasy: Okay, my friend. It's off to the next life for you. I guarantee you, you won't be lonely..

[–] KingCobra686 8 years ago

Yes to both.

Intelligence does not equal intelligent decisions. Many geniuses like Nathan become too cocky and overconfident in their abilities. He probably figures that he could pull some crazy solution out of his ass if he ever got into trouble and thinks that theres no reason to take safety precautions.

[–] yurenchu 8 years ago

There were safety precautions. But Caleb circumvented/sabotaged them. If there had been a "kill switch" or whatever, Caleb and Ava would have circumvented that too.

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[–] eolloe 9 years ago

Do you know the tale of Icarus?

Or how about something more recent:

October 1, 1999
NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.

A navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the metric system of millimeters and meters in its calculations, while Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, which designed and built the spacecraft, provided crucial acceleration data in the English system of inches, feet and pounds.

As a result, JPL engineers mistook acceleration readings measured in English units of pound-seconds for a metric measure of force called newton-seconds....

The loss of the Mars probe was the latest in a series of major spaceflight failures this year that destroyed billions of dollars worth of research, military and communications satellites or left them spinning in useless orbits....

None of JPL's rigorous quality control procedures caught the error in the nine months it took the spacecraft to make its 461-million-mile flight to Mars. Over the course of the journey, the miscalculations were enough to throw the spacecraft so far off track that it flew too deeply into the Martian atmosphere and was destroyed when it entered its initial orbit around Mars last week.

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288

It is an essential part of the human condition. No matter how smart we are (like those brilliant rocket scientists), we will make errors--sometimes monumental errors.