Monday, 15 May 2017

HBO’s Silicon Valley addresses the dark underbelly of artificial intelligence

Silicon Valley is Mike Judge and Alec Berg’s biting comedy about the American tech industry, now in its fourth season. Every week, we’ll be taking one idea, scene, or joke and explain how it ties to the real Silicon Valley and speaks to an issue at the heart of the industry and its ever-lasting goal to change the world — and make boatloads of money in the process.

Spoilers ahead for the fourth episode of season 4, “Teambuilding Exercise.”

In the fictional tech industry of HBO’s Silicon Valley, the soul-crushing mundanity of grunt work is often treated as a punchline. Like many sitcoms about careerism and the slog of American professional life, it’s considered an insult to have to do boring, seemingly meaningless tasks just because some...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/15/15643012/hbo-silicon-valley-recap-season-episode-4-teambuilding-excercise

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/05/hbos-silicon-valley-addresses-dark.html

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