[markyc]

AI is not here, as far as we know, so let's stop throwing it around with every other topic

[stevehb]

> as far as we know

Or maybe AI is here, and it's throwing out all these articles to hide its emergence. :)

[markyc]

Ender's Game suggests such a genesis story for AI: born as a "spark" of self awareness in the world wide computer network where it developed silently for a while, before making itself known to humans

[xyience]

Oh wow, is that where that meme started? (All I know about Ender's Game is from https://web.archive.org/web/20110319084212/http://plover.net...)

[arcticfox]

I don't know anything about the site you linked, but at face value, that article is absolutely awful. (Is it satire?)

For example, the point at the end saying the book celebrates a guilt-free genocide. Not the point at all! OSC wrote the entire rest of the series about his main character grappling with the guilt of what he did.

[khedoros]

That's...an interesting take. The character they're talking about didn't appear in the first book. She was introduced later in the series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_%28Ender%27s_Game%29

[mknocker]

I fully agree. There are even people who think the singularity will be coming within 10-15 years. The state of AI or machine learning if you want is far from what we see in the news.

[shpx]

First we called them programs, then we called them apps, now we call them AI.

People (paradoxically) really want to live in the future right now, but I think all of this is very premature.