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

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170 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 10 Apr 25 14:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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gmuslera ◴[10 Apr 25 15:10 UTC] No.43644637[source]▶
What we are labeling as AI today is different than was thought to be in the 90s, or when Asimov wrote most of his stories about robots and other ways of AI.

Saying that, a variant of Susan Calvin role could prove to be useful today.

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empath75 ◴[10 Apr 25 15:13 UTC] No.43644660[source]▶
Not sure that I agree with that. People have been imagining human-like AI since before computers were even a thing. The Star Trek computer from TNG is basically an LLM, really.

AI _researchers_ had a different idea of what AI would be like, as they were working on symbolic AI, but in the popular imagination, "AI" was a computer that acted and thought like a human.

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NoTeslaThrow ◴[10 Apr 25 15:16 UTC] No.43644715[source]▶
> The Star Trek computer from TNG is basically an LLM, really.

The Star Trek computer is not like LLMs: a) it provides reliable answers, b) it is capable of reasoning, c) it is capable of actually interacting with its environment in a rational manner, d) it is infallible unless someone messes with it. Each one of these points is far in the future of LLMs.

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sgt ◴[10 Apr 25 15:19 UTC] No.43644761[source]▶
Yet when you ask it to dim the lights, it dims either way too little or way too much. Poor Geordi.
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1. sgt ◴[10 Apr 25 21:06 UTC] No.43648017[source]▶
For what it's worth, I was referring to the episode when he set up a romantic dinner for the scientist lady. Computer couldn't get the lighting right.