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Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)
Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be surprisingly tricky to define.
We have personal computers in the home, and they are constantly getting better, cheaper, more versatile, capable of doing more things, so that we can look into the future, when, for the first time, humanity in general will be freed from all kinds of work that’s really an insult to the human brain.” Such work “requires no great thought, no great creativity. This interview was shot for Isaac Asimov’s Visions of the Future, a television documentary that aired in 1992, the last year of its subject’s life. “It would’ve been so much better if we had built our cities with the automobile in mind, instead of building cities for a pre-automobile age and finding we can hardly find any place to put the automobiles or allow them to drive.” Yet the cities we most enjoy today aren’t the new metropolises built or greatly expanded in the car-oriented decades after the Second World War, but precisely those old ones whose streets were built to the seemingly obsolete scale of human beings on foot.
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