From past to future: how science‑fiction writers imagine AI
Long before the first silicon transistors and supercomputers appeared, the prophets of science fiction tried to predict what man‑made intelligence would become. In their novels, they did not merely depict metal androids and blinking server lights, but also remarkably accurately anticipated key challenges of the modern AI era: the safety and goal‑alignment problem, algorithmic failures and "hallucinations," autonomous digital agents, and technological singularity. Here are some interesting ideas of how past authors imagined neural networks.
