alt Hacker NewsWow was the 80s really like this? I am interested in AI but it is a bit exhausting to keep up with
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Razengan • today at 7:33 AM
In the 1980s and earlier people thought that in 2000 computers would have the kind of AI we finally got in 2025 heh
In 1999 they even made a famous documentary about people in trench coats fighting AI
It's hard to overstate how much computers improved with each generation back then. Going from, say, an IBM XT or AT to an Amiga has no modern parallel. It was mind-blowing, exhausting, and exhilarating all at once.