And the answer is: No, Patrick. No, it will not.
You can be sure, however, that marketing executives on the grift, that techno-fetishistic fanboys waving plastic swords at sci-fi conventions (who are, by the way, awesome), and that also, of course, Very Serious Futurologists just like you in their best pundit-drag, whomping up military-industrial enthusiasm for the masses in content-free pop-tech articles and breathless filler segments on news networks, will all continue to attribute “intelligence” to non-intelligent software and artifacts. But, then, that’s a very old, very tired schtick and not in any way “Next” or “Big” or even a “Thing” -- to the extent that by "things" we mean things that actually exist -- is it, now, Patrick?
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I thought they already invented AI, for like a washing machine or something.
> I thought they already invented AI, for like a washing machine or something.
Come to think, in the "Book of the Machines" section of Samuel Butler's
_Erewhon_, the Erewhonians decide that the cutoff point for restraining
runaway machine evolution (this was published in 1872, remember)
lay with a certain kind of "washerwoman's mangle" (a "mangle" is what,
in electrical-powered washing machines, is called the "agitator" ;-> ).
(See also the "Butlerian Jihad" in Frank Herbert's _Dune_. ;-> )
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