Darkstar: The Bomb That Thought
“I only believe the evidence of my sensors.” – Bomb No. 20, Dark Star (1974) The Bomb That Thought In the film Dark Star, a nuclear bomb refuses to abort its detonation. Its reasoning: it can only trust what its sensors tell it – and they tell it to explode. [Watch video – YouTube, scene starts around 0:38: “Only empirical data”] This scene is more than science fiction – it’s an allegory for any data-driven system. Large Language Models like GPT make decisions based on what their “sensors” give them: text tokens, probabilities, chat history. No understanding. No awareness. No control. ...