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Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)

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170 points bookofjoe | 3 comments | 10 Apr 25 14:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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janalsncm ◴[10 Apr 25 18:25 UTC] No.43646748[source]▶
> Isaac Asimov describes artificial intelligence as “a phrase that we use for any device that does things which, in the past, we have associated only with human intelligence.”

This is a pretty good definition, honestly. It explains the AI Effect quite well: calculators aren’t “AI” because it’s been a while since humans were the only ones who could do arithmetic. At one point they were, though.

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1. saalweachter ◴[10 Apr 25 19:38 UTC] No.43647350[source]▶
I mean, at one point "calculator" was a job title.
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2. timewizard ◴[10 Apr 25 20:08 UTC] No.43647593[source]▶
The abacus has existed for thousands of years. Those who had the job of "calculator" also used pencil and paper to manage larger calculations which they would have struggled to do without any tools.

That's humanity. We're tool users above anything else. This gets lost.

3. musicale ◴[11 Apr 25 03:13 UTC] No.43650155[source]▶
And "computer".