Artificial intelligence is taking over everything, apparently threatening even religion.
HBO Max has premiered today the series Mrs. Davisa wacky comedy created by Damon Lindeloffthat pits a nun against an artificial intelligence who wants to dominate the world, seizing the Holy Grail.
mrs davis tells the story of a nun, Simone (Betty Gilpin), who is given the strange task of find the holy grail. And for some reason is connected with an artificial intelligence, which several different factions try to manipulate. You can see the trailer for the new HBO Max series in the opening video of the news.
It’s quite a surreal story, but what it has more depth than it seems. When they explain her mission, the nun Simone responds with this sentence: “If that AI existed, it could replace God“.
It is a thought that is not far from becoming reality. We see every day how artificial intelligence can do more and more things, from allowing robots to speak, to seeing through the eyes of a mouse, to reading its brain waves.
It is not difficult to imagine that, in a few years, artificial intelligence will be almighty. Doesn’t that make her a god? The new god of the 21st century which is already beginning to “adore” millions of people.
AI has also helped create the series
Mrs Davis is Damon Lindelof’s new projectwho rose to fame as co-creator of the mythical Lost series, and has since participated as a writer and producer on interesting projects such as Prometheus, Star Trek into the Darkness, or Watchmen.
To understand how artificial intelligence works, Damon Lindelof and his team decided create an AI that writes the titles of the chapters. They would accept these titles, whatever they were, as long as they had a minimum of relationship with the plot of each episode in question.
Lindelof explains in Looper that “artificial intelligence had a hard time understanding what a title was, despite the information we gave it“.
In the Spanish translation, we can find chapter titles as rare as “Mother of Mercy: The Call of the Horse”, “Zwei Sie Piel mit Seitung Sie Wirtschaftung”, or “A Good Drinking Place to Take Control of Your Drink”. .
They don’t make much sense, but they have saved work thinking about the titles.
Being a Peacock series, we thought it would premiere on SkyShowtime, which is integrated into this platform. But not. mrs davisthe crazy fight of a nun against artificial intelligence, has premiered on HBO Max. At the moment there are 5 chapters available, although the first season has 8 episodes.