a prediction
I think AI is going to creep up on us while weÂre still laughing at it (by phrasing it so I do not intend to impute to AI a sinister intentional stance), and that weÂll have been conversing with the cloud, chuckling the while at the cleverness of the canned responses, for a few years before it begins to dawn on the technorati that emergent behavior on the worldÂs servers has coalesced into someone home at the other end. A colleague today suggested that this would happen in half a century. IÂm going to say 2030 (with the sirisingularity having come about three to five years earlier), and expect to be called out some years before that for my pessimism.
cordially,
