Inspired by a recent comment, a potential AI movie or TV show that might introduce good ideas to society, is one where there are already uploads, LLM-agents and biohumans who are beginning to get intelligence-enhanced, but there is a global moratorium on making any individual much smarter.
There’s an explicit plan for gradually ramping up intelligence, running on tech that doesn’t require ASI (i.e. datacenters are centralized, monitored and controlled via international agreement, studying bioenhancement or AI development requires approval from your country’s FDA equivalent). There is some illegal research but it’s much less common. i.e the Controlled Takeoff is working a’ight.
If it were a TV show, the first season would mostly be exploring how uploads, ambiguously-sentient-LLMs, enhanced humans and regular humans coexist.
Main character is an enhanced human, worried about uploads gaining more political power because there are starting to be more of them, and research to speed them up or improve them is easier.
Main character has parents and a sibling or friend who are choosing to remain unenhanced, and there is some conflict about it.
By the end of season 1, there’s a subplot about illegal research into rapid superintelligence.
I think this sort of world could actually just support a pretty reasonable set of stories that mainstream people would be interested in, and I think would be great to get the meme of “rapidly increasing intelligence is dangerous (but, increasing intelligence can be good)” into the water.
I think I’m imagining “Game of Thrones” vibes but it could support other vibes.
This is not what you’re asking for, but are you aware of Pantheon (2022) (Wikipedia, LW thread)? It’s a short animated TV series (16 episodes over 2 seasons, canceled / cut short) about mind uploads and related topics. It features several of the things you want, but also some weird stuff like superhero-esque fights between uploads. And while the ending of the final episode is quite bombastically sci-fi, it also makes it very clear that the series was cut short.
Yeah I went to try to write some stuff and felt bottlenecked on figuring out how to generate a character I connect with. I used to write fiction but like 20 years ago and I’m out of touch.
I think a good approach here would be to start with some serial webfiction since that’s just easier to iterate on.
Inspired by a recent comment, a potential AI movie or TV show that might introduce good ideas to society, is one where there are already uploads, LLM-agents and biohumans who are beginning to get intelligence-enhanced, but there is a global moratorium on making any individual much smarter.
There’s an explicit plan for gradually ramping up intelligence, running on tech that doesn’t require ASI (i.e. datacenters are centralized, monitored and controlled via international agreement, studying bioenhancement or AI development requires approval from your country’s FDA equivalent). There is some illegal research but it’s much less common. i.e the Controlled Takeoff is working a’ight.
If it were a TV show, the first season would mostly be exploring how uploads, ambiguously-sentient-LLMs, enhanced humans and regular humans coexist.
Main character is an enhanced human, worried about uploads gaining more political power because there are starting to be more of them, and research to speed them up or improve them is easier.
Main character has parents and a sibling or friend who are choosing to remain unenhanced, and there is some conflict about it.
By the end of season 1, there’s a subplot about illegal research into rapid superintelligence.
I think this sort of world could actually just support a pretty reasonable set of stories that mainstream people would be interested in, and I think would be great to get the meme of “rapidly increasing intelligence is dangerous (but, increasing intelligence can be good)” into the water.
I think I’m imagining “Game of Thrones” vibes but it could support other vibes.
This is not what you’re asking for, but are you aware of Pantheon (2022) (Wikipedia, LW thread)? It’s a short animated TV series (16 episodes over 2 seasons, canceled / cut short) about mind uploads and related topics. It features several of the things you want, but also some weird stuff like superhero-esque fights between uploads. And while the ending of the final episode is quite bombastically sci-fi, it also makes it very clear that the series was cut short.
This strikes me as the kind of thing that could actually, really, help the situation, if it was excellently executed.
Yeah I went to try to write some stuff and felt bottlenecked on figuring out how to generate a character I connect with. I used to write fiction but like 20 years ago and I’m out of touch.
I think a good approach here would be to start with some serial webfiction since that’s just easier to iterate on.
(I switched “non-sentient LLMs” to “ambiguously sentient” in response to Gears’ react)