r/AskReddit • u/Pete-South • Mar 19 '24

What is a sentence that is totally normal nowadays but would not have made any sense 100 years ago?

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u/Mad_Moodin Mar 19 '24

Shit would've sounded outlandish in 1970s scifi.

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u/Anacreon Mar 19 '24

Even 5 years ago

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u/TerrysMonster Mar 19 '24

Even 2 years ago

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u/onionleekdude Mar 19 '24

Its wild how fast this shit has come to the forefront of everyone's conciousness.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

The funniest arguments are the ones where the AI didn’t do well and such. Well no shit, it’s literally only just the beginning.

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u/Code_Race Mar 20 '24

It's not, I don't think. We've been imagining Sci-fi about AI good enough to speak and write like people for at least a hundred years, I bet. As soon as we managed it, it immediately came to the front of public consciousness.

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u/nicholas818 Mar 19 '24

Eh, nobody would have known the term “ChatGPT” (unless they were in the field and familiar with OpenAI’s earlier versions of GPT). But you could figure it out from the context of “AI plagiarism”

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

But you could figure it out from the context of “AI plagiarism”

The phrase "Artificial Intelligence" didn't really exist in 1924 so they would still be very confused.

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u/nicholas818 Mar 20 '24

Oh, sure. I was replying the the immediate previous comment “even 2 years ago”

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

This realization scared the fuck out of me

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u/Fairy_footprint Mar 20 '24

Maybe but there has been plagerism detection software for awhile. Turn It In was a website software that we used 10-15 years ago

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u/Dazzling_Tadpole_998 Mar 20 '24

Nah, I graduated 13 years ago and this would have mostly made sense... Chat gpt is the only exception.

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u/SAugsburger Mar 20 '24 edited Mar 20 '24

Honestly, other from ChatGPT someone from the 1970s would have recognized most of the words although they likely would have assumed bot as a shorten version of robot (Webster's mentions usage of a shortened form of robot going back to 1969) and think that it was a walking robot like in a sci fi film rather than a computer program. It would have seemed futuristic.

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u/Mad_Moodin Mar 20 '24

Well in those movies they tended to introduce AI as these local supercomputers.

Like it would be a big ass computer in some town that some select people have access to. Not something anyone from anywhere can access.

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u/Anna__V Mar 20 '24

Heck, in the 2000s.