What We Thought This Decade Would Be Like Vs. Reality

AI Would Have An Actual Conscious

Everyone has seen Wall-E and I, Robot. In the future, artificial intelligence was supposed to actually feel. That’s not really a thing in 2018. Though AIs have gotten really good at pretending to be human (we love our Siri and Alexa), they decidedly don’t have actual feelings. That doesn’t mean they’re not eerily smart though. Last year, Facebook had to shut down their AI bots because they learned their own, non-human language and were actually communicating with each other. Fortunately, it wasn’t the beginning of the end. They were mostly just talking nonsense.