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[โ€“] roo@lemmy.one -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OpenAI accepts files/documents now.

[โ€“] Thavron@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In 1923 this would be gibberish.

I miss the niche community "sentences that would have made no sense fifteen years ago."

Like "Homestuck stans dox Twitter influencer @dril."

[โ€“] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea of a thinking machine/mechanical brain would be more than enough to wow them

[โ€“] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Yes. Realistic working computers were still a fantasy. So was solid state electronics and continuing miniaturisation.

But they might feel like plausible future space magic like flying cars.