AI is already scary enough to Sci-Fi fans — you can go all the way back to Hal, or Mike, or just to Continuity, but the idea of an artificial intelligence that starts to fuck with its human creators is a deep part of modern mythology. And now it’s happening. For real. And instead of Clarke, Kubrick, Heinlein and Gibson, we get … John Cleese.
Check out this boingboing video, which appears to not be a joke.
And then check out this Monty Python skit, which is pretty much the same discussion.
This is the way the world ends — not with argument, but contradiction