Science fiction is one of the few genres that can really support a sleeper hit. No matter how low-budget, how strange the direction, or how poorly it aged, if there’s a strong idea, any sci-fi story can stand the test of time — just look at the 60-year run of shows like Doctor Who. Because of that, it’s no wonder streaming services just starting out often look toward sci-fi to build off of: Netflix has Stranger Things, Disney+ has The Mandalorian, and Apple TV+ especially found success with For All Mankind, Severance, and, recently, Silo.

Now, MGM+ (formerly known as Epix) is looking to make its own flagship sci-fi show to replicate Silo’s success — and comes incredibly close.

That last year of AI hype has largely been driven by the allure of general knowledge chatbots. Experiments masquerading as services called Microsoft Bing, ChatGPT, and to a lesser extent, Google Bard, that attempt to answer just about any question or request with a natural language response, whether that's providing factual information you might dig up in a search through Google, or generating entirely “new” text.

There are real concerns to be raised about the use of these large language models (LLMs), but also dozens of exciting ways that they can be used. Chatbots and other AI features have spread to apps even quicker than Instagram Stories clones ever did, likely because the potential for these features as parsers and generators of information is so great.

The reality of living and working online is that we’re constantly bombarded with new information in the form of articles, videos, screenshots, and PDFs. No one has time to read or watch it all, but if there was a place to save it for later, that could also help you understand what you’ve saved and generate new ideas? That could really change how we use computers. And that’s something made possible by generative AI.