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Re:After the AI boom: what might we be left with? by dcminter on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:08PM (#45561421)
> we are on the cusp of intelligent machines

That's an extremely speculative view that has been fashionable at several points in the last 50 years.

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Re:After the AI boom: what might we be left with? by squidbeak on Sunday October 12, 2025 @06:17PM (#45562522)
How often in the last 50 years have those machines done what these machines do?
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Re:After the AI boom: what might we be left with? by dcminter on Sunday October 12, 2025 @06:33PM (#45562653)
On every occasion you could have made exactly the same point.
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Re:After the AI boom: what might we be left with? by bigyabai on Sunday October 12, 2025 @06:31PM (#45562636)
Define "do" in this context. If you mean hardware-accelerated matmul, then machines have been doing that for half a century.
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Re:After the AI boom: what might we be left with? by tim333 on Sunday October 12, 2025 @06:34PM (#45562659)
Things like getting gold in the math olympiad and 120 on iq tests are kinda cuspy and not been there in 49 of the last 50 years.
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