{"id":561583,"date":"2023-03-09T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sxsw-mrs-davis-is-a-perfectly-timed-warning-about-a-i-madness\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:04:00","slug":"sxsw-mrs-davis-is-a-perfectly-timed-warning-about-a-i-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sxsw-mrs-davis-is-a-perfectly-timed-warning-about-a-i-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"#SXSW: \u2018Mrs. Davis\u2019 Is a Perfectly Timed Warning About A.I. Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36dc7d9f62a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36dc7d9f62a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sxsw-mrs-davis-is-a-perfectly-timed-warning-about-a-i-madness\/#SXSW_%E2%80%98Mrs_Davis_Is_a_Perfectly_Timed_Warning_About_AI_Madness\" >SXSW: \u2018Mrs. Davis\u2019 Is a Perfectly Timed Warning About A.I. Madness<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sxsw-mrs-davis-is-a-perfectly-timed-warning-about-a-i-madness\/#More_TV_Premieres_at_SXSW\" >More TV Premieres at SXSW<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SXSW_%E2%80%98Mrs_Davis_Is_a_Perfectly_Timed_Warning_About_AI_Madness\"><\/span>SXSW: \u2018Mrs. Davis\u2019 Is a Perfectly Timed Warning About A.I. Madness<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    What if ChatGPT, but too much? Too popular, too omniscient, and far too nefarious than today\u2019s cutting-edge chatbots?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That\u2019s the premise of <em>Mrs. Davis,<\/em> an ultra-ambitious <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> from <em>Big Bang Theory <\/em>veteran Tara Hernandez and <em>Watchmen <\/em>creator Damon Lindelof. <em>Mrs. Davis<\/em>, premiering at SXSW before its April 20 streaming debut on Peacock, tells the story of a heroic, street-savvy nun (three-time <em>GLOW<\/em> Emmy nominee Betty Gilpin) battling an omnipresent AI and its legion of obsessed fans who will do anything to please their tech deity (called Mrs. Davis), which is supposedly striving to make the world a better place. Oh, and there\u2019s also a quest for the Holy Grail, possible Nazis with butterfly nets, nefarious magicians and a teary make-out session with Jesus \u2014 and that\u2019s just in the first two episodes. As Gilpin\u2019s character, Simone, says at one point: \u201cIt\u2019s <em>a lot<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThe most exciting thing about <em>Mrs. Davis <\/em>is that there\u2019s nothing like <em>Mrs. Davis<\/em>,\u201d says Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The series (teaser trailer below) was immaculately conceived during the early months of the pandemic, when Hernandez and Lindelof wished there were a benevolent algorithm that could cut through the blizzard of conflicting COVID-19 information and definitively explain, for instance, whether disinfecting groceries was useful or not. \u201cWe were like, \u2018God, I just wish there was an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> that said whether this is a huge waste of time,&#8217;\u201d Lindelof says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Straight off, their choice to have a cool-nun heroine was a bold one given the heavily tarnished reputation of the Catholic Church (the nuns who sadistically torture a Native American character in Paramount+\u2019s <em>1923<\/em> are more aligned with the cultural vibe). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIt definitely felt subversive and terrifying to us because they\u2019re not somebody that people here on the West Coast typically prop up as heroes of a story,\u201d Lindelof says. \u201cBut at this point, we\u2019re not pulling punches, so we\u2019re just going to go for it and see if we can get people on board with her journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Instead of the usual evil AI tropes, the team was instead interested in exploring the idea of a system clearly programmed to be benevolent \u2014 and how even that could still go wrong. \u201cInstead of the AI wiping out humanity, what would that look like?\u201d Lindelof says. \u201cTo us, that felt like the more potentially comedic and interesting way of looking at the God question, which is: What do people turn to God for? How does God make people feel? The thing about AI is it takes away the best part of God\u2019s branding, which is mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    As the team put the finishing touches on the show, they watched OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT bot become part of a massive cultural conversation about the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> and its potential misuse. \u201cThe writers\u2019 chat thread is, like, blowing up,\u201d Hernandez says. \u201cI actually think it\u2019s a good thing that it\u2019s happening now because we wouldn\u2019t have gotten anything done\u201d if it had launched earlier, because they\u2019d have been swept into the discussion. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-hollywood-reporter wp-block-embed-the-hollywood-reporter\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cWhether <em>Mrs. Davis<\/em> succeeds or fails, we\u2019re super excited that like everybody is talking about artificial intelligence and whether or not it is intelligent, or whether it\u2019s just telling us what we want to hear, and what we\u2019re supposed to use it for,\u201d Lindelof says. \u201cThis is a conversation that\u2019s been going on for a long time, but it\u2019s it\u2019s happening a lot right now \u2013 that, and shooting down weather balloons.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Lindelof admits that, to some extent, the idea of potential viewers who had gained a clearer sense of AI and its limitations worried the team. \u201cWe\u2019ve wondered if it\u2019s challenging our thesis now that you\u2019re starting to see the first articles being written about how stupid it really is,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you ask [chatbots] to do anything outside the realm of what they\u2019ve been programmed to do, they instantly reveal themselves to be idiots.\u201d Yet the writers still created their own rudimentary AI algorithm (which promptly named itself Larry Bel-Air) to write the show\u2019s episode titles. For the show\u2019s first episode, the bot provided the title \u201cMother of Mercy: The Call of the Horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Quips Lindelof: \u201cDon\u2019t tell the WGA.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_TV_Premieres_at_SXSW\"><\/span>More TV Premieres at SXSW<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong><em>Love and Death <\/em>(HBO MAX)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    From 11-time Emmy winner David E. Kelley comes this true-crime limited series about rural Texas housewife Candy Montgomery (Elizabeth Olsen), who was accused of ax murdering her friend in 1980.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>March 11, Paramount Theatre <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong><em>Rabbit Hole <\/em>(Paramount+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Kiefer Sutherland returns to TV in a role that\u2019s right in his action-thriller wheelhouse. The <em>24<\/em> star plays a master of corporate espionage framed for murder by a shadowy organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>March 12, Stateside Theatre<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong><em>Swarm<\/em> (Prime Video)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The horror series from Donald Glover and fellow <em>Atlanta<\/em> vet Janine Nabers follows a young woman (Dominique Fishback) who\u2019s obsessed with a Beyonc\u00e9-like pop star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>March 10, Paramount Theatre <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>This story first appeared in the March 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.hollywoodreporter.com\/sub\/?p=THR&amp;f=saleb_2&amp;s=IH2205THRS\">Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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