• m532@lemmygrad.ml
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    28 days ago

    Robots in fiction were almost always just weird humans.

    Real robots are not humans, but machines.

    But most authors are incapable of depicting real machines in their stories. Or real animals, or real hacking, or real economic systems, or any profession that isn’t their own…

    • Hyacin (He/Him)@lemmy.ml
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      24 days ago

      Yeah, this is the part that it feels like 80% of the world missed and/or doesn’t understand. The techbros usurped the term “AI”, applied it to this generative token predicting garbage, and renamed the other stuff “AGI”. In today’s terms if we want to look back at all that cool ‘AI’ stuff from movies and science fiction past, we need to call that stuff “AGI” to level set the terminology.