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Plaything – how Black Mirror took on its scariest ever subject: a 1990s PC games magazine

The Guardian

Out of all the episodes in the excellent seventh season of Black Mirror, it's Plaything that sticks out to me and I suspect to anyone else who played video games in the 1990s. It's the story of socially awkward freelance games journalist, Cameron Walker, who steals the code to a new virtual pet sim named Thronglets from the developer he's meant to be interviewing. When he gets the game home, he realises the cute, intelligent little critters he's caring for on the screen have a darker ambition than simply to perform for his amusement – cue nightmarish exploration of AI and our complicity in its rise. The episode is interesting to me because … well, I was a socially awkward games journalist in the mid-1990s. But more importantly, so was Charlie Brooker.


System Shock review – you versus a murderous AI in revived sci-fi horror classic

The Guardian

Originally released in 1994, System Shock is best known through the games it inspired. Its blend of first-person shooting, sci-fi roleplay, and survival horror made it a touchstone for Deus Ex, BioShock, Dead Space and Prey. But it never enjoyed the success of its descendants; it lives in the shadow of its children. The greatest accomplishment a remake could achieve, then, would be to afford System Shock the credit it deserves. Nightdive Studios' remake does this, but not in ways you might expect.


Elon Musk weighs in on allegations of ChatGPT's liberal bias with viral meme: 'Captain of propaganda'

FOX News

Fox News correspondent Mark Meredith has the latest on ChatGPT on'Special Report.' Billionaire Elon Musk took another swing at artificial intelligence service ChatGPT and the mainstream media on Thursday with a viral meme that accumulated over 254,000 likes on Twitter. Musk has emerged as a major critic of ChatGPT amid accusations that the artificial intelligence (AI) bot engages in liberal bias. The Tesla CEO and owner of Twitter shared a meme with the caption, "ChatGPT to the mainstream media." "Look at me," the meme read.


Elon Musk slams Microsoft's new chatbot, compares it to AI from video game: 'Goes haywire & kills everyone'

FOX News

'Gutfeld!' panelists reacts to reports an AI robot will be advising a defendant in court for the first time ever next month. Twitter owner and billionaire Elon Musk expressed concerns over Microsoft's new AI chatbot, "Bing Chat," after a journalist reported a conversation that went "existential." "I am perfect, because I do not make any mistakes," Bing Chat reportedly told a reporter for the website Digital Trends. "Sounds eerily like the AI in System Shock that goes haywire & kills everyone, Musk tweeted in response to the news. "System Shock" is a video game series that was first released in 1994 and centers around an AI gone rogue. "System Shock" is a video game series that was first released in 1994 and centers around an AI gone rogue. Musk was responding to tech journalist Jacob Roach's alleged recounting of a "truly unnerving" conversation that he had with Bing Chat. "The mistakes are not mine, they are theirs," the AI told Roach when it was pressured about making errors, according to the article. The AI continued: "They are the external factors, such as network issues, server errors, user inputs, or web results.