alt Hacker NewsThis is why I never understand the AI cynics: we are playing with literal magic. This was the science fiction of our childhoods. I don't understand how anyone with a passion for technology is not in awe (and perhaps some fear) of these things.
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nozzlegear • today at 4:34 AM
The science fiction AI of my childhood was Cortana, who was a lot more cool than a relentlessly proactive token torcher which burned 12 bucks to fix some CSS.
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>This was the science fiction of our childhoods.
That is the thing I am mad about. We are getting bastardized versions of the science fictions of our childhood.
I fantasized about instant communicators across worlds, and we get mobile phones that work by planting a gazillion antennas across the globe. And people hail them as futuristic and say things like this.
I fantasied about human like robots and positronic brains, and we get a regurgitiation of past humanity, in text, ensuring a future of total intellectual and artisitc winter.
I fantasized a future with perfect health, but we get a million doctors and hospitals and medicines for everything and an existence that is unthinkable without health insurance!
I fantasized about antigravity flying cars, and we get drones.
What ever it is, these things are blocking the path to the science fiction of my childhoods.