'Infinite Superintelligence for Everyone' — A One-Line Read on Where AI Actually Landed
A viral quip captured the strange gap between sci-fi expectations and what the AI era has actually delivered.
Amid a week of agent launches and safety pauses, @rauchg offered the crispest editorial of the day: "We were promised flying cars and all we got is infinite superintelligence for everyone." The line went viral because it inverts the usual disappointment narrative — the future didn't underdeliver, it just delivered something other than what the posters predicted.
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