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Liam Harding
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AI and Sci-Fi

People are leveraging AI in a TON of ways depending on what they need.

AI and science fiction are closely related, but of course they’re not the same thing. AI refers to actual technologies and systems that are designed to mimic human intelligence, like machine learning, robotics, and natural language processing (NLP).

These are real fields of research and development, there’s tangible progress happening in them every day.

It's real science.

Sci-Fi, on the other hand, often shows AI in ways that exceed the bounds of current tech, sometimes in wild ways. In sci-fi, AI might be super smart, self-aware, or even have its own emotions and wants.

Think of The Terminator, HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey or the androids in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner - those movies go WAY beyond where we are with real-world AI today.

AI might evolve into something closer to those Hollywood visions but it will take a very long time, if ever.

What are your thoughts?

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