● ResearchNov 6, 2026 · 11:361 source
How accurately did science fiction stories predict AI?
From jamesyu.org
AI;DR
Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects is the closest overall account of the work involved in teaching, maintaining, and selling AI. No works pre-2017 clearly describe the transformer attention mechanism or the sequence from widely used chatbots to agents that can discover novel new mathematical results within a few years.
Read originalSign in to suggest
Sources
+ 1 more
- DISCUSSIONjamesjyunews.ycombinator.com