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How accurately did science fiction stories predict AI?

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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.

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