{"id":295,"date":"2023-08-27T18:48:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T18:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexkey.co.uk\/lee\/?p=295"},"modified":"2023-08-27T19:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T19:08:05","slug":"person-of-interest-s3e22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexkey.co.uk\/lee\/log\/2023\/08\/person-of-interest-s3e22\/","title":{"rendered":"Person of Interest S3E22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Notes for season 3 episode 22, “A House Divided<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06:12 Root’s irregulars, three of the hackers recruited in previous episodes, are huddled in the back of a delivery truck like a cheap version of Sneakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06:58 Shaw gets handed the same model sat-phone she had in her first episode<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08:46 We see an establishing shot (via cctv) of One Grand Central Place<\/a> (formerly The Lincoln Building), suggesting that that might be the building housing Finch’s safehouse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:08 As well as being a bakery snob, Reese also has strong opinions about local coffee shops. Reese and Root sit behind three Dell 2009W monitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27:00 Someone triggers the Watch_Dogs blackout ability, and Manhattan loses power. This would happen for real five years later<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

32:20 Greer reveals his plan is not to control Samaritan, but to serve it. Creating something similar to the RPG Paranoia<\/a>, with Decima as Troubleshooters. He cites the base instincts and corruptibility of human leaders as reasons to trust an AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We see a refection of this in how people talk about AI-related processes (or “algorithms”) lacking bias and prejudice, as a sort of responsibility-washing. But automated processes can only reflect the data they’re given. Data which is heavily influenced by years of human bias and prejudice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greer taking a risk with alignment, but I imagine he’s expecting that (for a US government project running late 2001 to early 2005) the AI will have been trained to align with the government of George W Bush’s first term as President. An ideologically pure and incorruptible version of the right wing. All of the Tory, none of the sleaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

33:00 Ok, so the Vigilance plan involves using an elevator during power cut? They later lampshade this by radioing “Coming down, start the generator.” but it’s such a clumsy corner the writers put themselves in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

37:36 “Your men should really encrypt your text messages.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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