A childhood prediction about computers, and a parallel with AI
A user says he found a journal entry he wrote at age 11 in 2000 predicting “computers everywhere” by 2010. He sees a parallel with AI: the broad direction feels clear, but the details are hard to foresee.
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A user says his childhood journal predicted “computers everywhere” by 2010. Looking back at computers in phones, cars and doorbells, he says the direction was obvious but the details were impossible to see. AI feels the same to him now.
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