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We spent years worrying AI would become sentient and overthrow humanity. Turns out the more realistic scenario is humans inventing a religion around autocomplete. 🙈
If not deity, why deity shaped?
Terry was ahead of his time with TempleOS
Ouch, it was difficult reading about Terry. I feel so sorry for him and for how he suffered with severe mental illness.
Thank you for sharing that.
Robert Evans mentioned something like this in behind the bastards. We didn't need a Turing test for machines, we needed something for humans to test how easy it is to fall for beliving machines were sentient.