๐ฌ Les survivants (2022)
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๐ IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19895588/
โถ๏ธ Watch the video here ๐
https://darkiworld2026.com/titles/188724/les-survivants
#LesSurvivants #Thriller #Drama #Survival #MountainFilm #GuillaumeRenusson
I listened to this as an audiobook on the way to a Cataract Canyon raft trip last fall (where a section of the book takes place). It is an absolutely amazing and engaging story that wraps together river running, exploration, women's history, science and adventure. The author is here at #Mountainfilm, so I bought a signed paper copy.
This book has helped to publicize the journey of the first complete botanical survey of the Colorado River, done by the first women to make the complete descent (alive). Colorado River guides have begun informally naming two canyons "Jodder" and "Clover", after the two botanists, in an effort to eventually have the names become permanent.
This guy is in one of the documentaries here at #Mountainfilm
He was putting on an awesome little show for people standing in line at the "ice cream social" event, where they shut down the street and give out free ice cream cones.
The temperature is not much above freezing and it was snowing earlier, but everyone comes here prepared for that.
What's frustrating is that there weren't any public forums or online back channels to discuss #AIHype at the festival. Pretty low Fediverse presence there. I'm not using birdsite, but there has typically been very little active discussion about films there either during #Mountainfilm
And since hardly anyone has seen the film "Sophia" yet, it's like I'm talking to myself here. During panels about #AI I wanted to tear my hair out ๐ฑ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
"Sophia", a film about a humanoid robot, won an award at #Mountainfilm. On stage, the one member of the production crew who went up to accept it (sorry, don't recall his role) cleverly used ChatGPT to write the acceptance speech and read it out loud on stage. It was a great gag, but where it went off the rails is when someone else on stage said it was scary in how accurate it was (paraphrasing).
But, no, it was not scary. In fact, it was the most blandly, generic, fill-in-the-blanks acceptance speech you can imagine โ which is to say, exactly what you expect from autocomplete-on-steroids. It was manifestly *not* any sort of vague example of "intelligence."
I got a look this weekend into how the mainstream world views "AI" and how effectively the people who most stand to benefit from this technology have been in framing the narrative.
If ChatGPT were really clever, it would've thanked Sheila Nevins.* (she had nothing to do with the film.) Now that would've been scary.
*Old doc filmmaker joke.
As one of the few people here at #Mountainfilm masking in theaters, I'm just realizing that at least some people likely think I'm sick, instead of trying to avoid getting sick.
I almost want to put one of those "Hello my name is" stickers on my chest that says "I'm not sick, but maybe you are."
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#CovidIsNotOver Also, another study just came out showing chronic brain inflammation in a significant number of Covid patients, even with mild cases.
So much of the discussion here at #Mountainfilm, especially around the film Sophia, assumes AGI will be a real thing soon (-ish), so the questions revolve around hypothetical harms and the need to regulate against them.
But if you see "AI" as a tool whose negative effects are *already* being borne by vulnerable populations; a technology already being used by authoritarians; a tech already reinforcing the biases of the society that developed it... If you understand #AI in this light, the discussion can become grounded, reality based and hopefully lead to effective action to reduce actual harms.
On a different topic, there is a film here at #Mountainfilm called Sophia about a guy's quest to build a humanoid robot enlivened with a low-grade chatbot (think first gen Siri). (Also, the robot is modeled after a young white woman. Go figure ๐คทโโ๏ธ)
I really enjoyed the film, but the view of the protagonist, who thinks that "AI" will become sentient and exhibit "emotions" is, IMO, total hype.
There have been other events here discussing issues around technology and AI. Overall, the level of sophistication is fairly low and confused, but it does give a sense of how the larger public sees these issues.
This is where the value of being able to follow so many sharp, sophisticated people on here becomes clear.
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