
Science fiction has long pondered a world where humans are outmoded. Whether taking a post-apocalyptic tack, where we become braindead automatons simply shuffling from one place to another while tech handles all our issues, or a more techno-utopian one where we live, Jetsons-like, in a world where robots are always helpful and systems innately know what we want from bars, shops and restaurants, the idea has fixated authors and thinkers.
But with the advent of AI, science fiction is quickly becoming science fact. What had previously been thought unthinkable just two years ago has been changed thanks to the generative AI revolution the release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has unleashed.