VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue
In Marvel’s VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it plays with some of the ideas that have come to dominate the conversation about real-world generative artificial intelligence, exploring whether we should look at thinking machines as people and if AI truly poses the kind of existential danger that should keep us up at night. It’s also a reminder how aggressively Silicon Valley has used the trappings of science fiction to sell us on its AI products.
VisionQuest picks up some time after Agatha All Along and follows synthezoid Vision (Paul Bettany) on a journey of self-discovery. This Vision can recall the details of his death in Avengers: Infinity War and how WandaVisionbrought a version of him back, but he...
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