LewieP wrote:
I stopped watching Person of Interest after the first episode because the entire premise was broken and stupid.
After a while, that initial premise of a powerful supercomputer AI predicting terrorist incidents and planned murders etc. becomes the most plausible part of the programme. I think peak silliness was when -
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the good AI moves itself to avoid the bad AI and ends up running on the power grid. Then, when the bad AI realises this and starts causing power cuts everywhere, the good guys, using some magical new compression algorithm and fancy processors, download a highly compressed version of the AI into a battery-powered briefcase in the hope of restoring/rebuilding the good AI at a later date.