Maybe AI is not nuclear power, or the printing press, but the optical mirror. A simple, unordinary, boring, mirror. Seemingly fantastical to those unfamiliar

Maybe AI is not nuclear power, or the printing press, but the optical mirror. A simple, unordinary, boring, mirror. Seemingly fantastical to those unfamiliar with it, it would have startled many who never saw one, with its apparent capacity to reproduce human likeness and nature. Once you look behind it, there's nothing. No nature within, no magic, just a polished surface. A cute trick, destined to become a trivial object. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_and_Narcissus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_and_Narcissus > Juno curses Echo by making her unable to initiate a spoken sentence on her own and instead only being able to finish a sentence started by someone else. "Yet a chatterbox, had no other use of speech than she has now, that she could repeat only the last words out of many."