AI is about ideas. They don’t even have to be your ideas! Blade Runner 2049, a 2017 film about an apocalyptic future, features fully autonomous AI-driven vehicles. The cars both fly through the air…
what’s fucking bizarre is the Iron Man writers seem to swear their version of Tony Stark was based on Musk, and we know now Musk’s nothing like that. so looking back with more seasoned eyes: how much of the first Iron Man was just propaganda too? of course there’s all the libertarian shit — whose idea was all that, actually?
You want my suspicion, Marvel were probably taking their cues from the public image SpaceX/Tesla’s marketing and/or Musk’s PR team had put out about the guy - as an eccentric genius par excellence who’d save humanity from global warming and/or get us to Mars.
You want my suspicion, Marvel were probably taking their cues from the public image SpaceX/Tesla’s marketing and/or Musk’s PR team had put out about the guy - as an eccentric genius par excellence who’d save humanity from global warming and/or get us to Mars.