Future Tense

Future Tense

The Quiet Utility

When AI just works and nobody writes articles about it

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A Z Mackay
Jan 08, 2025
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In a server farm somewhere, a classifier is making fifteen billion decisions today. Not the philosophical kind that generates conference panels and essays about machine sentience. The binary kind: spam or not spam. By the time you finish this sentence, it has executed another few million.

You didn’t notice. That was the entire point.

In 1991, Mark Weiser …

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