Nolan, AI, and the Responsibility of Intelligence
I walked out of the cinema expecting to think about Homer. Instead, I couldn’t stop thinking about AI. Not because Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is secretly about machine learning. It is not. Nor because every old story must now be converted into a parable about large language models. The connection is more interesting than that. Nolan keeps returning to people who push intelligence past an old boundary and then discover that getting there was only half the problem. ...