- Monitoring of power consumption for illegal computer usage? Check.
- Superintelligent AIs under tight supervision? Check.
- Bootlegged neural nets passed around on torrenting networks? Check.
- Poverty and homelessness running rampant? Check.
Folks, we're officially living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
It’s just that there is this uncomfortable moment that you can accidentally get turned into a paper-clip, if you get that one-off error or a sign wrong. But otherwise it doesn’t look like a bad future. Particularly, if it is compared to an alternative where, well, you just die in one boring way or another.