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Agreed. But I think it’s also important to realise if you sent this article back to 2020 people would say it was pure fantasy that a tool could do this. Hype as
by asp_hornet 3mo ago
Agreed. But I think it’s also important to realise if you sent this article back to 2020 people would say it was pure fantasy that a tool could do this. Hype aside, there’s a bit of cool magic here.
- solenoid0937 3mo agoThis 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.
- nozzlegear 3mo agoThe 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.
- solenoid0937 3mo agoYou can literally make Cortana with modern LLMs. Or something close to it. Especially as models like this are trained: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/ https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
- jrflowers 3mo agoI think GP meant Cortana from the Halo video game series and not the start menu bar widget
- nozzlegear 3mo agoSorry, I should've been more specific; like jrflowers said: the Cortana I was referring to was the AI character from the Halo series. I did have a Windows Phone though and thought the Cortana assistant was one of the coolest things back then! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(Halo) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(Halo)
- qsera 3mo ago>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.
- jrflowers 3mo agoImagining a time machine from the future arriving in 2020, of all the years, just to tell people about how sort of cool chat bots might get eventually