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Sci-fi writers missed AI's central server future, unlike local machine intelligence

Golden Age science fiction writers largely overlooked the development of AI residing on central servers, instead focusing on decentralized intelligence within individual machines. While some stories, like Isaac Asimov's "Catch That Rabbit," hinted at networked communication, the dominant prediction was for AI to be locally housed. AI

RANK_REASON Opinion piece discussing a perceived oversight in science fiction's predictions about AI.

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Sci-fi writers missed AI's central server future, unlike local machine intelligence

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · benfulton ·

    One thing the Golden Age sci-fi writers got wrong about AI is that, as far as I know, no one predicted that the intelligence would be on a central server rather

    One thing the Golden Age sci-fi writers got wrong about AI is that, as far as I know, no one predicted that the intelligence would be on a central server rather than on the machine. Isaac Asimov's "Catch That Rabbit" touches on it a little bit, with some Bluetoothy communications…