Oppenheimer Is A "Warning" To The World On AI: Christopher Nolan
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"Artificial intelligence researchers refer to the present moment as an 'Oppenheimer moment'," said Christopher Nolan
The story of the invention of the atomic bomb told in the new film Oppenheimer is a "warning" to the world as we grapple with artificial intelligence, insists the movie's director Christopher Nolan. The British-born maker of Memento, Dunkirk and the Batman trilogy said he believes a lot of the anguish around technology "in our imagination stems from (Robert) Oppenheimer," the physicist who helped invent nuclear weapons during World War II.
"What he and his team at the Los Alamos Laboratory in the United States did was "the ultimate expression of science... which is such a positive thing, having the ultimate negative consequences," Nolan said.
Like back then, the startling advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are raising similar fears about the dangers of a technology with potentially uncontrollable consequences.
