The AI I Was Promised

How the dream of human-AI collaboration got hijacked, and why I’m taking it back

I remember being ten years old, sitting in front of a huge beige box in my room, and having a very specific vision of the future, one that included an AI. One that was already being conceived in movies and TV, sometimes it looked like a robot, sometimes it lived in the screen. I didn’t know much about this technology but I knew I wanted it to work with …