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overlordpotatoe t1_iw5bfcc wrote

I think, as with a lot of new technologies, following years will upstage this year's progress so that in retrospect this year in particular feels less significant. Like the early days of the internet. The internet itself has been a major foundational technology, but most people probably don't remember the first year it was introduced as a time of great significance relative to what it became in the following years. If in several years time AI has revolutionised medical science and we all have AI assistants with humanlike intelligence, coding is obsolete and anyone can make a game just by telling the AI what to do, etc, most people will probably barely remember the days when people who playing around with basic image generators. Even now, the image generators I was using months ago that couldn't manage humans at all feel like a distant memory compared to what I can do now.

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throwaway764586893 t1_iw6go9o wrote

I first heard about the internet in early 1993 and it was a sudden change in perception like this year.

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AsuhoChinami t1_iw6hdaf wrote

I don't think I knew the internet existed until I was a 10 year old in 1997. The 4th grade classroom computers had the internet and nobody knew wtf it was and ignored it in favor of Oregon Trail and Chip's Challenge.

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overlordpotatoe t1_iw6kd1o wrote

I was five at the time, so admittedly I wasn't the most tech informed. The AOL days were my first experience with it.

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