Nano-Blog : June 15, 2025

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§ June 20, 2025

• Quote About the Future

  Artificial Intelligence is five years in the future and has been for the last twenty.

  The editorial staff at the Bit-Roastery went looking for the source of this quote and came up empty. But it's too good of a quote to keep to ourselves. Everyone here is absolutely certain they encountered a quote like this sometime in the 1970s or 1980s, so none of us are claiming we came up with it.

  But it makes us wonder. Did we all have a group hallucination about encountering this quip? Or did a large artificial intelligence take over Google and Microsoft and edit their search index to leave only positive comments about machine intelligence? Will our search rankings be forever lowered because we are publishing these conspiratorial thoughts?

  We would be surprised to discover any of this is true, but it makes one wonder. What did Google (and Bing) do to their search index to make what we all remember as a pithy quip from the 80s disapper down the memory hole? Researcher Darin Morgan published the results of his investigation several years ago:

  #ai #aphorisms #unsourced

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