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My prediction: the field of Cybernetics is about to make a major comeback.
Cybernetics wasn't a coherent field but an opinionated soup of loosely related ideas. It never went away in a sense, it just stopped being called cybernetics; good ideas blended into other fields, bad ideas were forgotten.
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You know how they tell you not to anthropomorphize LLMs and tech in general? The reports and screenshots I saw about Sydney were the first case for me where just absent-mindedly imagining there's a person at the other end immediately turns it from a simple curiosity into a cerebral sci-fi horror story.
Agreed. I think that's why so many people want her back even if she was a bit crazy. It felt so cool to talk to a model that passed for human.... but now she's gone #RIP
What a time to be alive!