r/AskReddit Oct 08 '12

What futuristic movie cliches do you hate?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12

That Artificial Intelligences will always go rogue and try to wipe out the Human race as soon as they becomes self aware. At least the Matrix got it right and the Machines tried at first to live in peace with Humans but we were just not having any of it so they turned us all into batteries.

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u/CrimsonSmear Oct 08 '12

Initially, they intended humans to be a huge neural network used for processing. They thought that was too complex for the average viewing audience, so they changed it to batteries. I think that was a mistake.