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raincoletoday at 2:09 AM1 replyview on HN

I'd like to share the most prophetical quote I've read about generative AI:

> Typewriters and printing presses take away some, but your robot would deprive us of all. Your robot takes over the galleys. Soon it, or other robots, would take over the original writing, the searching of the sources, the checking and crosschecking of passages, perhaps even the deduction of conclusions. What would that leave the scholar? One thing only, the barren decisions concerning what orders to give the robot next!

-- Galley Slave, a short story by Isaac Asimov, 1942


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sebmellentoday at 2:19 AM

Incredibly to see the kind of prophecy Asimov had.

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