HBO’s Silicon Valley takes a direct shot at the tech industry’s obsession with AI
Silicon Valley is Mike Judge and Alec Berg’s biting comedy about the American tech industry, now in its fourth season. Every week, we’ll be taking one idea, scene, or joke and explain how it ties to the real Silicon Valley and speaks to an issue at the heart of the industry and its ever-lasting goal to change the world — and make boatloads of money in the process.
Spoilers ahead for the third episode of season 4, “Intellectual Property.”
What started as a silly and somewhat racially insensitive joke from last week’s episode has turned into Silicon Valley‘s latest clever skewering of the tech industry’s fanciful obsessions. The show has always had a knack for tapping into lowbrow humor — who could forget season 1’s elaborate dick joke…