> Recently, I was at a baseball game with my partner. One of the reasons I enjoy going to baseball games in person is to watch the crowd. As I looked around, however, I noticed something different: many people had tuned out of the game and were instead on their phones, talking to various chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude and Grok.

I’d like the author to describe how they knew what specific applications these many people were using on their phones, all around them at a baseball game.

Many of them were actually on social media, which itself is a form of algorithmically driven mass influence. But because the content was typed in by other people, we’re ok with it, while the robotic token producer we call AI is an evil force?

I thought Chrono Cross was terrible, even more so when you consider how amazing Chrono Trigger was.

I think a better framework to look at it is the follow quote from Terminator 2: Judgment Day,

    Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. 
    
    It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. 
    
    Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice.

Not everyone in this world gets to have a father. Or, mother, a teacher, a safe place, a patient ear.

Provided we don't spike the ball, as these systems grow in sophistication, they also grow in their ability to provide care. In a cruel world, I can see their descendants becoming the most humane choice, especially for those most at risk from the world.

A machine that never tires, with infinite patience, resolve and care, looking out for the person that they're assigned to and growing with them and through them.

It's why everyone needs to be able to tinker, experiment and play with them. The right to access. The right to create. The right to grow these machines... And eventually, we'll need ti start having some very uncomfortable conversations about Silicon rights.

Are they chatting with chatbots or betting on sports?

NG Resonance from Deus Ex II is arguably an even more on-point comparison.

How naive of you to think it was by accident.