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This is why I never understand the AI cynics: we are playing with literal magic. This was the science fiction of our childhoods. I don't understand how anyone with a passion for technology is not in awe (and perhaps some fear) of these things.
>This was the science fiction of our childhoods.

That is the thing I am mad about. We are getting bastardized versions of the science fictions of our childhood.

I fantasized about instant communicators across worlds, and we get mobile phones that work by planting a gazillion antennas across the globe. And people hail them as futuristic and say things like this.

I fantasied about human like robots and positronic brains, and we get a regurgitiation of past humanity, in text, ensuring a future of total intellectual and artisitc winter.

I fantasized a future with perfect health, but we get a million doctors and hospitals and medicines for everything and an existence that is unthinkable without health insurance!

I fantasized about antigravity flying cars, and we get drones.

What ever it is, these things are blocking the path to the science fiction of my childhoods.

The science fiction AI of my childhood was Cortana, who was a lot more cool than a relentlessly proactive token torcher which burned 12 bucks to fix some CSS.
You can literally make Cortana with modern LLMs. Or something close to it. Especially as models like this are trained: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
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