My video binge-watching came to its inevitable destination: I watched a movie in which Johnny Depp is the least attractive person on the set. And that includes all the nerdy computer geeks, and guys in flannel shirts and hardhats that are so 2010. But he’s also a dream husband, after he moves out of the house and into the computer. So as you can imagine, it all works out in the end.
The movie was Transcendence. If you haven’t seen it, I’ll sum it up by saying it’s about Johnny Depp in glasses (therefore super smart) who figures out a way to capture his intelligence into a computer the size of the freezer cases at Costco, so when he’s poisoned by anti-technology radicals, he can continue his research into how to develop artificial intelligence to take over the world. Like a live action Pinky and the Brain, in the episode where the Brain has an epiphanal realization that the only reason he wants to take over the world is so he can fund his research to take over the world. [Read more…] about An AI Husband Would Be AOK