Science fiction missed today’s AI: statistical language models were the surprise
emollick · x · 2026-07-27
The post argues that science fiction did not really anticipate the kind of AI we have today. While stories like Culture Minds or Golem XIV imagined advanced machine intellects, the present and near-term reality is stranger: statistical language models doing surprisingly capable things in unexpected ways.
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