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   Tim Bray (timbray@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 12:07:36 JST Tim Bray

   One wonders whether chatGPT & related technology is like the Web in 1995, which limped a bit and was full of sharp corners, but quickly grew into something huge and magical, or like the early self-driving-car demos of say 2012, which convinced a lot of people (including me) that autonomous vehicles for everyone were just around the corner.

   There have been plenty of technologies that made the first 90% of the solution easy but never managed to quite get to general usability.

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     Tim Bray (timbray@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 12:07:35 JST Tim Bray

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     • mhd

     @mhd Hah, I attended the "VRML '95" conference and all the attendees thought we had the world in the palms of our hands. There were some damn cool demos.

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     mhd (mhd@tilde.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 12:07:36 JST mhd

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     @timbray I'm reminded of VRML and the Incoming Any Day Now 3D VR of the late 90s, too.

     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: repeated this.