# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 2
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/gzerdja
@bender @prologic The "smarter people than I am are doing this" argument is a way of giving up.
AI is not in its infancy. Alan Turing wrote about what we now call AI in the 1940s/1950s, almost three quarters of a century ago. Some of what he wrote is how it still works today, in spite of all the "smart people working on it".
Back then, the first prototype transistor was being created. It was the size of your fist, more or less. Now, we can cram tens of billions of them into a square centimeter of silicon. If AI had "progressed" similarly, we'd have had walking talking robots around us long ago. Instead we have toys and marketing hype.
It's important to see it for what it is and not accept the marketing putched. We've all been inundated with technoutopian visions that never come to fruition, over and over and over again. It's time to be skeptical, and to demand better.
@abucci everything is on its infancy, relatively speaking. I mean, your 1940s example is merely 82 years old. What is that? Nothing.
The fact is, we don’t know what we don’t know. The argument is not giving up. It is a way to say “I am not knowledgable enough—not will ever be—to speak on that matter."