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bluegattytoday at 12:11 AM1 replyview on HN

No sarcasm.

Maybe slightly odd is how anyone could possibly think I was being sarcastic. :)

I'm not attacking you here or anything :)

I'm just a bit shocked at how cynical people can be. The thought would not cross my mind ... and I'm a skeptic of many things!

There's a video somewhere of some people in Wyoming, riding horses.

All of the comments are young people shock of these 'boomers' committing 'animal abuse'.

I mean ... just ranchers riding horses.

People think that 'Ward Cleaver' form 'Leave It To Beaver' is some 'creepy twilight zone figure' ... when he's just literally a nice guy. Or rather the character is.

We're getting way to jaded!

So - I really mean it: AI is going to be mostly very pedantic stuff.

I witnessed the birth of computers and the internet - and while AI is definitely a big deal ... I think it's just going to feel like 'more computing stuff' in the end.

Computers started out for Science - then it became about video games, socialization, design, commerce, and of course 'gambling and porn' and all the 'same vices'.

Every step of the way there were people thinking it was being 'debauched' etc..

AI is going to be about the most mundane things, just as most technology is today.

It will be boring and in the background, and probably weird like a poorly designed, slow web-page full of cruft, but it will 'do the thing'.


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cindyllmtoday at 1:47 AM

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