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Re:A handwritten letter from Dijkstra to an aspiring teenage... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:37AM (#34082036)
Eh, they're not wrong. Given another 20-30 years of progress at this rate, it's coming for almost every knowledge worker's job.

Which is pretty freaking cool.

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Re:A handwritten letter from Dijkstra to an aspiring teenage... by qsort on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:07AM (#34082488)
It's been 20-30 years in the future for several decades now.
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Re:A handwritten letter from Dijkstra to an aspiring teenage... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:28AM (#34082763)
Yes, and something finally happened. A hell of a lot happened, actually, starting with AlphaGo and progressing to a credible Turing-test contestant only a couple of years later.

But yes, your deeper point is hard to dispute; this business has always run on punctuated equilibrium. We may be in for another 50+ years of "AI winter." I doubt it, though. It feels different this time.

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