I read almost all of the first chapter out of courtesy, but I could do with some introduction of what this is. The piece doesn’t even have a prologue and you just copypasted a link with no context. What’s this in general?
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MangoCats@feddit.it 1 month ago
I wanted to share it as I experienced it: I also was given a bare link with little introduction. It’s short enough that I feel like too much introduction would amount to spoilers. The story was written 23 years ago, but its opening describes a future that I feel might be just a few years out with our “AI assistants” telling us what to do, how to do it, etc. It goes on to describe a couple of alternate futures resulting from this technological advancement.
Where today’s AI tech is different from the story is that today’s tech is flaky enough that professional experts in their fields still have to “push back” to get good results out of the AI tools, tell them when they’re wrong, guide them to better / more preferred solutions. What’s… new this past 12 months as opposed to the previous 50 years of AI development is that the tech is steadily and rather quickly advancing - to the point that it feels like it might be able to implement “Manna” within just a couple more years.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I really enjoyed that story, thanks for sharing. I don’t often read fiction, but I found myself drawn into that.
For anyone who would like more context for what is linked, it’s a short sci-fi story (79 pages, according to the Kindle edition, 9 chapters when reading online). I give this context because I found myself confused at first, because OP gave no info besides the link, so I didn’t realise it was a fictional story I was reading