Re:How accurately did science fiction stories predict AI?
by brotchie on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:18AM
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Yeah Accelerando is by far the most accurate at the "gestalt" of how AI progress is actually feeling, and how ridiculous the future is likely going to be.
Clawbook felt very "Accelerando," personal agents are kind of like Manfred's exo-cortex (AR still has a bit to go). Aineko becoming some ASI that masks its intelligence isn't that far off the mark.
The whole "AI evolves Economics 2.0 which is only understandable by humans if they eliminate the aspect of themselves that makes them human in the first place."
A lot of sci-fi novels kind of give a sanitized, streamlined, view of AI. Accelerando is really the only novel that captures what the chaos and future shock of a growing singularity feels like to be in.
Clawbook felt very "Accelerando," personal agents are kind of like Manfred's exo-cortex (AR still has a bit to go). Aineko becoming some ASI that masks its intelligence isn't that far off the mark.
The whole "AI evolves Economics 2.0 which is only understandable by humans if they eliminate the aspect of themselves that makes them human in the first place."
A lot of sci-fi novels kind of give a sanitized, streamlined, view of AI. Accelerando is really the only novel that captures what the chaos and future shock of a growing singularity feels like to be in.