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I was recently reminded how in the Harry Potter books random appliances/tools/visual media all have a tiny bit of intelligence and can speak back to you. They t
by herculity275 4y ago
I was recently reminded how in the Harry Potter books random appliances/tools/visual media all have a tiny bit of intelligence and can speak back to you. They typically have no agency and don't appear sentient, but they make the magical world a lot more interactive. I do wonder if the near-short term for LLM adoption looks a bit like that.
- college_physics 4y agothe experience with voice assistants seems to suggest that lowering expectations would be a good thing, as people are both gullible and ready to believe in magic and quickly come to get disappointed by fake magicians. alas lowering expectations is exactly the opposite of VC culture.