Sci-Fi AI Assistants Went From Unrealistically Hard to Unrealistically Trivial
hunterlightman · x · 2026-10-06
hunterlightman observes how quickly AI assistants in science fiction flipped from being unrealistic because they were impossible to being unrealistic because they're trivial — a neat commentary on how fast real AI progress has compressed science fiction's imagination.
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