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:usasos:@DaveFlater@infosec.exchange
The most accurate prophecy of generative AI was the Nutrimatic machine in Fit the Ninth of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe paperback (in which it is spelled Nutri-Matic). Both appeared in 1980.
The Nutrimatic machine is given a ton of background information and a prompt to produce tea. The result is "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea." The main character makes a concerted attempt to cajole the thing into producing palatable tea, a process we now call prompt engineering. The Nutrimatic then sucks up extreme amounts of resources in order to produce a good cup of tea. The use of these resources to automate an unimportant task that a human could have done nearly gets everyone killed as the ship's computer has no cycles left to respond to incoming threats.
https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/07/30/prompt-engineering-at-the-end-of-the-universe.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Primary_and_Secondary_Phases#Fit_the_Ninth