Guillermo del Toro Says ‘Frankenstein’ Isn’t a Metaphor for AI: ‘I’m Not Afraid of Artificial Intelligence, I’m Afraid of Natural Stupidity’

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1. > “It’s not intended as a metaphor for that,” del Toro said at the film’s official press conference on Saturday afternoon. “We live in a time of terror and intimidation, certainly. And the seminal question in the novel is, what is it to be human? What makes us human? There’s no more urgent task than to remain, in a time where everything is pushing towards a bipolar, understanding of our humanity. The movie tries to show imperfect characters and the right we have to remain imperfect, and the right we have to understand each other under the most oppressive circumstances.”

   > Plus, he cracked, “I’m not afraid of artificial intelligence. I’m afraid of natural stupidity.”

2. Considering it was Natural Stupidity that brought us AI he’s not wrong.

3. The scary thing is artificial intelligence being controlled by naturally stupid people.

4. Guillermo- 2 things can be right.

5. Que the arm chair experts who trying to reinterpret what he Said to it some how him being being pro ai 

6. So his next movie is going to be dog shit?

7. /r/im14andthisisdeep

8. But you have to have his kind of wealth to not be intimidated by AI. Regular folks don’t have the option to be flippant.

9. I thought the metaphor was misunderstanding who are the real monsters

10. Yeah, that’s kind of the point of the book

11. If he’s not afraid of AI, why shouldn’t Frankenstein be a metaphor?

12. He is afraid of me 

13. That is an excellent quote.

14. All the points to Guillermo!

15. I’m…im going over here for a bit….

16. Me too, Guillermo…meeee too.

17. talk to em lmao

18. One of the hardest bars I’ve ever heard anyone drop lol

19. That’s one of the points of Frankenstein tho, is that Frankenstein was a flawed scientist who imparted his flawed humanity into his non-human creation and seeing it manifested frightened him.
    Just because Ai wasn’t around at the time of Mary Shelley doesn’t mean concepts like artificial souls and machines weren’t. The hebrew myth of the golem goes back long before Frankenstein’s time. And the original Automatons were a known piece of greek mythology for many authors throughout Europe.
    It’s not unthinkable that there would’ve been inspiration in a work about a guy stitching corpse parts together and animating it with lightning in order to create life in his own image.

20. I mean, it wasn’t a metaphor back when it was written, but like, something something death of the author.

    It’s a man-made personality developing a mind of its own.

    In any case – both are linked together. Artificial intelligence may enable natural stupidity and vice versa.

21. Considering just how much all natural stupidity tends to rule over humanity I worry for A.I getting stupid because of it.

22. That’s a quote I’ll be using for many years!

23. Okay, but who is developing the AI? Naturally stupid humans

24. Deadman is never wrong

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