Press Enter is a novella by John Varley about a disabled war veteran who inherits his neighbor. The neighbor was a powerful hacker. So powerful that he could make money out of thin air. Another hacker comes to investigate. Unfortunately for all parties involved, the story is a horror and they’ll not have a bright future.
What impressed me is that there are AI prompts, just like the ones we use to talk to ChatGPT. There’s also prompt hacking. By 1984, AI development had apparently advanced enough for John Varley to foresee a trajectory.
The novella aged like wine.
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I love these insights into a world of literature, and AI, that I otherwise would know nothing about.
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People have been dreaming about mechanical intelligence from the BC times. They imagined problems coming with specific types of intelligence, and here they are. When a type of automation becomes available, some of the problems that philosophers, writers and inventors predicted, also come to life. Other problems do not.
There was a prediction that computers will take 30% of the spaceships, for example. Modern computers are tiny. The Van Troff book predicted that Earth needs to be covered by solar panels to satisfy the energy needs. By now, it’s clear that all of humanity’s energy needs can be satisfied with a very tiny sacrifice of desert land.
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Ouch
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