Word of warning, I did this (gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled) on my Tuxedo OS system with Nvidia and I don't know if it was just the next time I started Firefox or because said restart was after a big system update, but Firefox crashed on launch every time until managed to get it into safe mode (wasn't as easy as holding shift) and then turned this back off.
That's a good one, I actually had to look it up because I got stuck at thinking of turning a knob to turn on a radio, but those were after light bulbs.
Gaslights had knobs to control the flow before electricity.
That's true, 'tape' is certainly more rare than it used to be, I do agree that it's fading but I still think 'the kids' would have likely heard it from a parent (or grandparent at this point) and asked or gotten the jist from context.
I'd guess they know the word even if they don't think about the etymology. Just like the only phone I ever used with a physical dial belonged to my grandmother but I still knew what dialling a phone was (and didn't make the connection until decades later when I saw it mentioned as a linguistic artifact like I'm doing now.)
I haven't watched it yet but given the context I'm going to assume they mean 'traditional' machine learning and not specifically the LLMs or diffusion models which are now usually called "AI". I feel like domain specific ML models are not a problem - they don't scrape the web or require new power plants to operate.
But yeah LLMs are evil.
And I'll see if I'm wrong after watching it.
Update:
Yeah, I cringed a bit every time he said AI for a regular machine learning system, but that's what he meant. And unfortunately given the general public I kinda understand why he used the term. (And he does actually explain it as ML also)
I still remember exactly how the announcer enunced "You're Going The Wrong Way!"
I haven't read the book, but yeah that really broke immersion for me in the movie.