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Re:A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics by gdiamos on Friday June 20, 2025 @11:28AM (#44328657)
Was this thing written by ChatGPT?
Re:A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics by dmillard on Friday June 20, 2025 @11:35AM (#44328719)
Clearly not - it's quite funny (or at least I thought so).

Anyway, the author is a well known writer in the robotics world.

Re:A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics by gdiamos on Friday June 20, 2025 @03:18PM (#44331031)
The future part didn’t land for me at all.

To me it just goes completely off the rails.

“”” 2035: AI is 10,000 times smarter than the smartest human.7 It composes “A Brief, Exhaustive and Completely Correct History of Robotics” which is much funnier than this one.

2035: Technological utopia arrives. “””

That’s okay, humor requires taking a risk.

Re:A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics by robobenjie on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:10PM (#44333328)
I had a dickens of a time with the ending. Having it end at the present seemed super abrupt (as it really feels like we are in the middle of a big shift) but I didn't really want to venture into my own predictions. One of my early readers had the suggestion of using prominent AI CEO/VC's predictions about the near future and treating them seriously as if they were inevitable fact, which I found very funny. And really this is all about amusing myself.
Re:A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics by robobenjie on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:08PM (#44333309)
aww thanks David.
Re:A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics by robobenjie on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:13PM (#44333344)
There is exactly one joke by ChatGPT. For Stability AI's CEO's prediction that there are no longer any human programmers by 2028 I liked the idea of referencing Stanford's intro to CS class which is semi-famously a bell-weather for the tech industry. My original replacement class was "Growing food for Sustenance" which kind of worked but I thought was weak. I asked ChatGPT for alternates and it gave me about 15, of which "Barter Economics and Goat Management" was clearly the funniest, and annoyingly funnier than mine.