If you were a teenager in 1970 and were beginning to become skeptical of the promise of the space age, beyond “Tang instant breakfast drink” and Velcro, there’s a small chance that you saw a movie, “Colossus: The Forbin Project.” Dozens did. I was among them.
After years in the wilderness, with this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), I’m cautiously optimistic Apple is finally seeing what some of us have been saying for years. Having fumbled its big unveilings for years straight while letting AI whiz past it, there is at least a glimmer of hope. Is it well founded?
Two esoteric programming events bubbled up this past week. If you’re not into computer science, they may appear irrelevant to you. They’re not. The arcane managed to bring to life our pressing questions about whether AI can create or is a regurgitation machine.
Remember when everyone on the Right was rightly upset at the government censoring opinions it found distasteful? Somehow that seems forgotten in the other war of this weekend.