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The Secret to Understanding AI

In the before times—before machines could hallucinate, before compute was a noun—it was not uncommon to go several weeks without someone telling me the world was about to end. Similarly, a whole season might pass without anyone assuring me that it was also, simultaneously, about to become perfect.

The Secret to Understanding AI

TL;DR

  • Before modern technology, people rarely heard about the world ending.
  • Similarly, assurances of the world becoming perfect were not a constant refrain.
  • The current era sees frequent predictions of both extreme outcomes.