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That's... remarkably accurate, in hindsight. When Kurzweil made this prediction, it seemed overoptimistic. Now, with the recent launch of ChatGPT, "Sydney", La
by cs702 4y ago
That's... remarkably accurate, in hindsight.
When Kurzweil made this prediction, it seemed overoptimistic. Now, with the recent launch of ChatGPT, "Sydney", LaMDA, etc., it's obvious to everyone that early incarnations of the technology for making 'Her' possible are here already, and will only get exponentially better over the six years remaining until 2029.
Kurzweil has been wrong about a lot of things, but he sure looks to have gotten this one right.
- jml7c5 4y agoIt is remarkable. When Her was released I was uninterested in seeing it ― despite glowing reviews ― because it seemed implausible that any believable, conversational AI would arrive in a near future setting. When I saw the trailer it felt to me like someone with little technical knowledge had seen Alexa, Siri, etc and extrapolated a silly future, much as science fiction in the 60s and 70s imagined people of the 2000s donning bubble helmets and casually taking vacations on the moon. And yet here we are today with LLMs (which many don't even see as a route to AGI!) expressing all of this unexpectedly complex behavior.