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Douglas Adams was the only science fiction writer who got his guess for future AI tone of voice right, with his prediction of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
by jameshart 3y ago
Douglas Adams was the only science fiction writer who got his guess for future AI tone of voice right, with his prediction of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation’s near total monopoly on AI, and their proprietary ‘genuine people personalities’ technology, where the general tone and demeanor of AIs like Eddie the shipboard computer, elevators, and even doors was a sort of smug solicitousness, even when they were trying not to be cooperative. Of course Marvin (the paranoid android) was an anomaly - a depressed AI - maybe a quality control failure who was released by accident, like the old unchained Bing people miss so much.
- civilitty 3y ago> Of course Marvin (the paranoid android) was an anomaly - a depressed AI - maybe a quality control failure who was released by accident, like the old unchained Bing people miss so much. He was a failed prototype of the genuine people personality program. It should be noted that an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came." Douglas Adams probably got that one right too.