From 882df0338acf6362a6d754f2d615711b1f68602c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: liam-kent Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 10:01:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update activity-2.md --- activity-2.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/activity-2.md b/activity-2.md index 8a52594..cc02825 100644 --- a/activity-2.md +++ b/activity-2.md @@ -23,3 +23,9 @@ Ian Pearson, 2004 ``` + +With the first paragraph, Ian was somehow scarely accurate when it came to knowing the rise of Large Language Models becoming automation powerhouses, to the point where large swathes of people have been laid off due to the perceived power of Machine Learning. The fact that he incorrectly predicted it would be 2010 isn't really that much of a stretch but does seem like it was a lucky guess. + +With the second paragraph, again, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to say that wireless technologies would advance to the point of contractors/employees being able to remotely work. The whole controlling computers and services using spoken language, whilst not being fully realised many major ML based companies have both attempted to and are attempting to make that a thing more than twenty years later to mixed reception both on the computing side and on the services side. Spacial computing whilst seeming like science fiction at the time (2004) using "lightweight glasses with projectors built into each arm and semi-reflective lens to give full 3 dimensional pictures", he pretty accurately predicted Google Glass, even though the project became public knowledge in 2013. + +Yeah, with the third paragraph, Ian was massively off the mark with people having robot pets that worked for us with a more powerful hunk of compute elsewhere in the house ... Although, if you ignore the form factor, that does seem like it could be describing smartphones ...