Vankil 🇳🇬

It feels like typical AI-generated work. The amount and density of information, as well as the overall quality, increase every year, but somehow it all seems to be heading in the same direction. In any case, it still hasn’t reached a level where it can express any real creative taste, so it’s rejected. The real battle will begin when an engineer indistinguishable from a human developer is typing away at a keyboard, and a Terminator shows up completely naked to kill me and my grandchildren. In Japan, we already have cat-eared robots delivering food at family restaurants—but they’re still on wheels. Evolution is way too slow. At this rate, I’ll die of old age before AI ever comes to kill me. People trying to make money from viral videos have been making a huge fuss about how amazing AI is since around 2020, but honestly, its progress feels slow enough to make me yawn. Both software-based AI and physical AI need to hurry the hell up. Just yesterday, I still had to clean my car windows myself. This isn’t the future I was told about when I was in elementary school. According to the books about the 21st century that I read as a child, we should have had robot chefs in our homes by now. Nuclear-powered jumbo jets should have been flying through the skies. Android tutors equipped with artificial intelligence should have been coming to help children with their summer vacation homework. Cars shouldn’t merely have been self-driving—they should have been flying along sky highways. Fathers should have been commuting to work from cities beneath the ocean. Humanity should already have begun colonizing Mars. Every movie should have featured incredible three-dimensional imagery without the need for 3D glasses. Game developers shouldn’t even exist anymore—you should have been able to shout, “I want to play an amazing game!” and then play GTA 6 on your wristwatch for about two dollars’ worth of electricity. And above all, it was supposed to be a peaceful world where crime was something you could experience only inside video games. And yet, what does the modern world actually look like? In Paris and Tokyo, we still live through day after day of dog owners failing to pick up their dogs’ shit while out on walks. This isn’t the future I was promised. Every day, I’m reminded that we’re still the ones who have to keep pushing things forward.