Hello, Computer: The Star Trek Era Has Begun
At seven years old I watched a Star Trek engineer talk to a computer — and concluded it would never happen in my lifetime. From the Sinclair QL to Audrey, Shoebox, Dragon, Siri and ChatGPT, the abyss between human and machine was crossed within one lifetime: mine. This personal essay explores the stochastic-parrot debate, Microsoft's research on outsourced thinking, and the freestyle chess lesson — human plus computer beats both — ending with a rule for living well in the first age of talking machines. #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfAI #StarTrek #ChatGPT #SpeechRecognition #CriticalThinking #StochasticParrot #AIRevolution