I know this sounds dystopian and nightmarish but this is what Michael cried envisioned for Westworld which originally was a book and a movie that then became the TV series.
Jason Calacanis · This Week in Startups · Apr 2023 Listen at 17:10 The best things said about it
And that one that was Michael kon's book Westworld is a movie from it U and then they made it into a TV series and that is like hey here's a real world person going into a scenario with robots.
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Michael Crichton's novel Westworld presents a dystopian science-fiction premise where human visitors enter a simulated environment populated by sophisticated robots, raising complex questions about human-robot interaction and artificial consciousness. On This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis frequently referenced the property across multiple episodes while examining cutting-edge developments in artificial intelligence and robotics. Calacanis brought up Crichton's original novel—which subsequently inspired a feature film and a prominent television series—when discussing advanced AI experiments that simulate real-world scenarios, noting that contemporary technological demonstrations often mirror the dark scenarios Crichton originally envisioned. In another episode, he invoked the novel while discussing corporate efforts by entities like Disney to engineer robots that are convincing and sophisticated enough to avoid feeling artificial to human observers. Across these discussions, the book served as a recurring touchstone for evaluating the rapid progress of artificial intelligence and the ethical implications of creating immersive, autonomous synthetic environments. The hosts used Crichton's narrative framework to contextualize both the exciting potential and the inherent nightmarish risks associated with bringing increasingly advanced robotic systems into everyday human life.
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Jason Calacanis I know this sounds dystopian and nightmarish but this is what Michael cried envisioned for Westworld which… 2
“I know this sounds dystopian and nightmarish but this is what Michael cried envisioned for Westworld which originally was a book and a movie that then became the TV series”
“just like uh the michael crichton novel westworld which became a movie which became a great hbo series we don't want anyone thinking that's the most sophisticated robot i ever encountered”
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“and that one that was Michael kon's book Westworld is a movie from it U and then they made it into a TV series and that is like hey here's a real world person going into a scenario with robots”
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“if you've ever seen the show or the movie or read the book by Michael Crichton inside a sims-like Sandbox video game they created a bunch of NPCs had them talk to each other”