If "The Matrix" film was made today, the AI would be hooking up humans to its system not to harvest power nor processing capabilities - it would just force the humans to watch ads.
Seriously, is there any application to AI that is not ad-related?

I’d think it would use the humans for model training. Let them live for whatever the machines need them to live and experience, for X amount of time. Then they harvest their brain for training purposes.

there is no AI. It's just some kenians

@ars1 maybe it's already going on and we're only living in freedom for this

@retoor that would explain all of the BTC Recovery Angel Trust Hacker Wizards here on devrant

I thought the battery was symbolic of harvesting hormones from the body for an expensive recreational drug. You have a whole society of people and a few disappear every year. Those chosen are processed for making this drug.

@Demolishun that's what happened to aok

@ars1 so, AI would use humans to watch ads (in the matrix) and then download updates? Admittedly, that is like 80% of the modern screen time anyway.

Porn

they want you to watch ads so they can milk you for money

I guess by this point they want you to watch ads so you can think in their ideology and foster their goals for them like a good little army, for free. after all, true believers are dangerous, but hired guns will turn on you as soon as a better offer comes

> Seriously, is there any application to AI that is not ad-related?

You mean like help researcher to find new materials for more efficient batteries?

Then yes.