Being able to look up and verify just about any fact in seconds via a magical device that fits in your pocket and only needs to be charged once a day, then never using it to do that.
Yes! I dunno if it’s still reasonably possible, but I remember downloading a text copy of Wikipedia and thinking how cool that was. And earlier than that, back in the CD-ROM era (90s), digital encyclopedias were actually an exciting use of the technology and I was given one as a Christmas gift.
Being able to look up and verify just about any fact in seconds via a magical device that fits in your pocket and only needs to be charged once a day, then never using it to do that.
I use it for fact checking all the time!
“Hey Chatgpt…”
You jest, but I used ChatGPT the other day to check a fact and it was right on!
“Hey ChatGPT, do AIs often hallucinate and just make shit up?”
At least it’s honest… Until the context gets too long. Then it gets sick of chatting with us 🤷
Yes! I dunno if it’s still reasonably possible, but I remember downloading a text copy of Wikipedia and thinking how cool that was. And earlier than that, back in the CD-ROM era (90s), digital encyclopedias were actually an exciting use of the technology and I was given one as a Christmas gift.
You can still download Wikipedia, the entire English version (as of 2022) is only 95GB (including images!)
I wish slide-up keyboards were back.