most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate...
I forget what book specifically, I wanna say it was in an Asimov anthology. But there’s a book or story that revisits this robot at different points going forward large leaps in time, well after humans. And the robots just keep doing their thing as if there are still humans involved. I’ve been trying to Google a specific except to post here but after twenty minutes of getting to find it in giving up.
Point is, it’s very relevant and predictive to this infinite bot contribution to dead subs on Reddit, its just gonna bots talking to each other forever on there as actual active users dwindle
I forget what book specifically, I wanna say it was in an Asimov anthology. But there’s a book or story that revisits this robot at different points going forward large leaps in time, well after humans. And the robots just keep doing their thing as if there are still humans involved. I’ve been trying to Google a specific except to post here but after twenty minutes of getting to find it in giving up.
Point is, it’s very relevant and predictive to this infinite bot contribution to dead subs on Reddit, its just gonna bots talking to each other forever on there as actual active users dwindle
This reminds me of an episode from the show Electric Dreams, on Amazon Prime.
You don’t mean Asimov’s “The Last Question” do you?
I think it may have been, thanks!
This probably isn’t the story you’re thinking of, but “There will come soft rains” by Bradbury has similar themes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
Could be I, Robot?
May be one of the books in the Foundation series.