{"id":193840,"date":"2024-07-31T20:30:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/surprising-outcome-of-carl-sagans-famous-1975-prediction-about-ai-becoming-your-attentive-psychotherapist"},"modified":"2024-07-31T20:30:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:30:44","slug":"surprising-outcome-of-carl-sagans-famous-1975-prediction-about-ai-becoming-your-attentive-psychotherapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/surprising-outcome-of-carl-sagans-famous-1975-prediction-about-ai-becoming-your-attentive-psychotherapist","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Outcome Of Carl Sagan\u2019s Famous 1975 Prediction About AI Becoming Your Attentive Psychotherapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprising-outcome-of-carl-sagans-famous-1975-prediction-about-ai-becoming-your-attentive-psychotherapist3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will begin with the first point and make my way gradually to the tenth point.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve already mentioned to you that the AI of the 1970s was toy-like in comparison to the more involved and expansive AI of today. Modern-day generative AI, for example, makes use of vast amounts of data as scanned across the Internet to pattern-match the nature of human writing. This requires a massive amount of computing resources (something far beyond the depth readily employable in the 1970s). The large-scale modeling or pattern matching is what makes contemporary generative AI seem highly fluent.<\/p>\n<p>A common phrase is to say that generative AI is mimicking or parroting human writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will begin with the first point and make my way gradually to the tenth point. I\u2019ve already mentioned to you that the AI of the 1970s was toy-like in comparison to the more involved and expansive AI of today. Modern-day generative AI, for example, makes use of vast amounts of data as scanned across [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}