> I can't think of ways it's seriously impacted my life
It’s there in a thousand little prosaic things, like trackpads, camera autofocus, credit applications, news feeds, movie recommendations, Amazon logistics optimization. You don’t feel it but it’s there, and the effects accumulate.
It’s like robots: dishwashers and laundry washers are commonplace computer- and feedback-controlled mechatronics, ie. simple special-purpose robots. And almost everything you own was made partially with robots. But it doesn’t feel like the world’s full of robots.
It’s there in a thousand little prosaic things, like trackpads, camera autofocus, credit applications, news feeds, movie recommendations, Amazon logistics optimization. You don’t feel it but it’s there, and the effects accumulate.
It’s like robots: dishwashers and laundry washers are commonplace computer- and feedback-controlled mechatronics, ie. simple special-purpose robots. And almost everything you own was made partially with robots. But it doesn’t feel like the world’s full of robots.