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What's the stunning prediction talked about in the title? Because it sounds like he doesn't think he predicted today's AI, or that he thought about AI much in t
by karaterobot 3y ago
What's the stunning prediction talked about in the title? Because it sounds like he doesn't think he predicted today's AI, or that he thought about AI much in that story.
> The technology that drives the book wasn’t really AI as we think of it now—I was talking to people who were working on some of the underlying technologies that would be needed to communicate on the internet in a secure, anonymous manner. I guess it’s implicit that there’s an AI in there that’s generating the story and increasing the degree of sophistication in response to the learning curve of the child, but I didn’t really go into that very much; I just kind of assumed it would be there.