I was reminded of #SiliconValley (the #HBO show) recently and it struck me how much things have changed and also how prescient it was with respect to #AI.
I only really watched the last season, but the subplot of Gilfoyle's "Son of Anton" AI is kinda crazy in retrospect.
The show ended well before #ChatGPT (2019), so this was very much unrealistic in its time.
Gilfoyle himself is a very "I'm smarter than you and I know it" kind of character, and the way the writers demonstrated that was by having him build his own AI agent to do stuff he couldn't be bothered to do.
This was borderline SciFi at the time and kinda absurd, but it's the way they sold how smart he was. Yet this workflow is increasingly standardized and taken for granted only a few years later. You could write any generic intern at Pied Piper doing the same thing today (albeit less extreme).