There's reference in Robert Silverberg's "The World Inside" of prompting the database in reference to knowledge workers. The phrase/wording paraphrased was "...needed to word it just right to get the information from the system"...
Ask HN: Can you think of a sci-fi novel that feels like ChatGPT now?
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#12The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Is my favorite computers achieve sentience book
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#13Not a novel, there was a movie called "Her" around 10 years ago. The man fell in love with a Chatbot. iirc He also used the Chatbot to do some writing.
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#14Not a novel, there was a movie called "Her" around 10 years ago. The man fell in love with a Chatbot. iirc He also used the Chatbot to do some writing.
My biggest fantasy from that movie is that one day a chat or like that will clear my email inbox - like her.
That’s what I walked away with ;)
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#16Rule 34 by charlie stross. It's a very near future scifi involving ai in a somewhat different way than normal. The author is on hn with the username cstross.
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#17The last question. This is the one hit me when I first used ChatGPT.
That's quite a contrast: ChatGPT will confidently bullshit you, while the AI you refer to is upfront about its limits.
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#18"Feed (2002) is a young adult dystopian novel of the cyberpunk subgenre written by M. T. Anderson. The novel focuses on issues such as corporate power, consumerism, information technology, data mining, and environmental decay, with a sometimes sardonic, sometimes somber tone.
From the first-person perspective of a teen boy, the book takes place in a near-futuristic American culture completely dominated by advertising and corporate exploitation, corresponding to the enormous popularity of internetworking brain implants."
Re: Ask HN: Can you think of a sci-fi novel that feels like ChatGPT now?
#19"Feed (2002) is a young adult dystopian novel of the cyberpunk subgenre written by M. T. Anderson. The novel focuses on issues such as corporate power, consumerism, information technology, data mining, and environmental decay, with a sometimes sardonic, sometimes somber tone. From the first-person perspective of a teen boy, the book takes place in a near-futuristic American culture completely dominated by advertising…
Titus and his friends receive consumerist influence from constant ad flows through their feeds as well as their buyer's education from School™.
The feed itself is considered a tool for education, but it is controlled by major corporations with the intent of creating consumer profiles. In this sense, it is simply another outlet for the consumerist narrative of the novel.
Most evident of the feed's anti-education objective is Titus's apparent lack of skills in reading and writing, and his sparse vocabulary. This reinforces the idea that critical thinking is not a necessity in the interest of the corporations."
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#20[No spoilers] This was a bit of a mind bender for me:
I was halfway through "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds when ChatGPT was released. Throughout the book, it is common for characters to use natural language to delegate technical tasks to AI helpers, and then review the results later.
As somebody who does a lot of technical work and had hands-on experience with GPT-2 this seemed quite implausible. A few months ago I couldn't just instruct an AI to go find X and Y and then calculate Z and show me a visualization of that.
But now with copilot, Bing, ChatGPT, et al this is a pretty standard task! Using natural language to instruct an AI to find some information or write a first rough draft of some code is no longer some far-future fiction.
The timing with ChatGPT dropping when I was halfway through the book meant that one of the elements of its world went from feeling very "sci-fi" to being quite ordinary. o_0