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I tried chatGPT too. It has its limitations, but certainly is great for confined/hierarchical systems (including code, if it has enough examples...)
It also helped me with some tricky Blender modelling (such as deforming stuff to parabolic or other functions).

But can ChatGPT provide functional AGS code too?
(iirc it can only do that for major codes, like python etc, because there are so many examples of such online)

Imo it's Sean Connery's best role.
(second would be in The Man who would be King)

Me too ^^ Playthroughs are also something that interests me (if the game has good ideas)

Afaik there are main differences with digital machines, due to them transforming the power behind the system (eg electricity in the transistors) to distinct measurements (=digits). Analog machines, on the other hand, take into account the continuous supply, which is the opposite of distinct. It's not just a "simplification" but a condition which imposes very specific barriers (a famous example of that is the Turing proof about not being able to build a program which would certainly calculate if any other program can run to the end; Goedel incompleteness is another, previous example).
You can build an analog computer, of course (there have been such), but it will be vastly less efficient than the digital ones (and it's not like itself can be used to even do the stuff computers do now, with Ai art or the chat-bot etc).

The main idea behind digital machines is exactly that they act as formal logic systems, which are math systems that by definition only can work if they are distinct (=finite) and not continuous themselves. It's often argued (but this is an ongoing debate) that the difference with something like consciousness is that you can freely identify a state outside the system. Personally I view it as the ability (consciousness) to form a symbolic understanding of something, ie something which you can be aware is NOT the actual something, but which you still can use just fine to stand for that something. A machine, on the other hand, doesn't form symbolic connections, only material ones (another way of saying that it doesn't form anything, it just runs stuff so there's no distinction= itself another way of saying it has no senses).

Well, sort of ^^
But at least Poe was the one who made Europeans bother to read an American writer...
(Borges later on did that for Latin America)

Anyway, not sure how you wouldn't get that there's a nested meaning relating to how the prototype's opening sentence is meant - not entirely in earnest.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride & Prejudice is vastly overrated   

Anyway, I watched Resurrection (it's somewhat mystery, but not really - more in the spoiler). Overall it is worth a watch, imo, but I did have an issue with it.

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Seems to be a delusion-story, but the problem here is that it's not very believable that one would manage to mass-delude themselves at 19. Would be more realistic if she was in pre-puberty when she did, or at least early puberty - to go with the child plot. Imo the ending was severely botched stylistically too, but I did like the rest of the movie

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Mmm, it is a vast subject. There are arguments against (as it's called) hard AI (or "real AI"), basically against the notion that a machine will actually have consciousness. A very famous mathematician (and winner of the nobel for Physics) who is against the view there can be machine consciousness is Roger Penrose. Although he focuses on the machines used being digital (argues that the phenomenon of consciousness seems to be analog).
Of course a digital system has other limitations (loads of theorems on that, even before Turing, by Turing, after Turing), but an analog computer wouldn't be as efficient as we by now expect machines to be with standard tasks.

Fernando Pessoa did write some detective stories - but I haven't read any of them in full.

I am just a Bautista fan, won't lie 

Dave Bautista should never

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die first ^^ - lots of others died in Dune 1 so his impending doom in Dune 2 doesn't count.

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As for the Poirot plot, I am trying to recall the name of the story, but it is one where the murderers are a couple (the latin-knowing one had killed a person in the past, and the girl covered for him). In the end he punches Poirot - played by Peter Ustinov.
Maybe it is Evil Under the Sun? (most probably)

I doubt it's a red herring/homage, likely just nothing at all

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(there's a scene in this Glass Onion movie, where the sister of the dead says something about her students liking "Clue", and it was followed by a rather needless brief silence; but it's nothing, her students were in the third grade, so could play Clue, just made me think at the time of the important plot element in the Christie-adapted movie)

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^Agree to disagree; iirc,

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he didn't always send invitations at fixed intervals; and they were all surprised when they received the box,

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and anyway the film has a nicely flamboyant style (besides, Dave Bautista makes everything better  )

Come to think of it,

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what was the point of the party? They'd all already know the other person was dead, if the detective himself didn't see to postpone the news, so is there any sense in having them all there with him? (assuming they'd even come, which they would not)

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You're entitled not to enjoy it, of course! But I find this criticism a little confusing.

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Yes, gathering all the suspects together in a remote location with a detective is a silly plan, and something no one would do in real life. But it's also a staple of the whodunit, for obvious reasons. If they hadn't held the party, there would have been no film.

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I agree, but imo it's not a good idea to base your entire premise on something which is simply irrational:

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if the news was out (that the girl was dead), no one would want to go to a remote island with the killer, so there was no logic in having the billionaire send invitations: it still takes some time to travel to Greece from the US, email alerts would have reached them prior to arriving at the island.
There are plenty of far more believable plots where the suspects are all there with a detective.
I think they sort of tried to "excuse" all glaring lack of logic, by terming the billionaire "an idiot", and the entire group as "s..heads", but in reality this is an extremely bad joke (I feel) on the audience and/OR just very lazy writing.

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Might be some relatively obscure (but recent) horror movie. I recall such a woman in one of those, being visited to give an account of some ancient legend etc.

Edit: is this that Ethan Hawke film? (Sinister)

I hear you, but the computers are always going to need new (by humans) prototypes created, before they can fuse them into their own work. Of course this doesn't mean the art market will be sustainable for humans, just that some human artists will be paid to work with computers.
Cost-wise, there is simply no antagonism between using (for a few seconds, often) a machine to create (eg) a variation of a work by Paul Klee, and paying a human to do it.

The Brood? 

We need a new quiz!!!! 

I watched Glass Onion but unfortunately didn't like it :/
Also I wouldn't say the style is pleasant - you can only name-drop so many celebrities and/or have them guest before the entire movie comes across as non-serious.
More importantly, though...

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, why do that to Bautista? (who is actually great in his movies!)

Re Christie moments, when the scene first happened, I recalled that "my students"-related moment in a Poirot story (with the latin teacher or similar). But it was nothing - possibly not even meant as a red herring.
I can't say the plot was very structured (?), for example lots of things could have happened very differently or didn't need to even happen (such as the originally planned murder game).
Come to think of it, what was the point of the party? They'd all already know the other person was dead, if the detective himself didn't see to postpone the news, so is there any sense in having them all there with him? (assuming they'd even come, which they would not)

edit: yes, it also reminds one directly of that Poirot story in (another) Greek island (was it Rhodes?), where the same trick was used with the glass.

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Snarky
I didn't know the Christina's World painting before.  But you're right, it is indeed like the 2nd screenshot.   
I have no idea if that scene was inspired by the painting, or not. 
None of the films you mention are correct. 


Heltonjon
Your description makes me think of Nightmare On Elm Street 3:  Dream Warriors.



A family gathering

Wait, is this the Howling? (or one of the Howling movies)

Hm, not sure if it reminds me of some movie, or just other similar scenes ^^