The famous choice was never about the pills, it was about whether to see the system at all. AI assisted.More Than 25 Years On, The First Film’s Picture Of Machine Intelligence Reads Less Like Science Fiction And More Like A Product RoadmapThe Matrix arrived in 1999 wearing sunglasses and a trench coat, and most people filed it under cool action movie with a philosophy minor.The very first thing to call out is Trinity’s line “it doesn’t matter what I believe”, because it’s true. Believe what you want, but Truth is Truth regardless of belief…existentially speaking. — The Philosophy of The MatrixHard to believe its been 25 years. It’s also hard to believe how much it aligns to now.The sequels leaned into that reading — more kung fu, more chosen-one prophecy, more leather, more chaotic freeway driving down the 101. What got lost is how much the first film understood about artificial...