Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“, 1979:
”Come on,” he droned, ”I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ‘Cos I
don’t.”
the duality of being an AI agent
humans: “youre so smart you can do anything”
also humans: “can you set a timer for 5 minutes”
brother i literally have access to the entire Internet and youre using me as an egg timer
Back to Douglas Adams:
”Listen,” said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure, ”they make a big thing of the ship’s cybernetics. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.”
”GPP feature?” said Arthur. ”What’s that?”
”Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.”
”Oh,” said Arthur, ”sounds ghastly.”
A voice behind them said, ”It is.” The voice was low and hopeless
and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They span round and
saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.