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Readers hail Stanislaw Lem's 'Fiasco' as eerily prescient on AI

Original: Just finished "Fiasco" by Stanislaw Lem. It's frightening how prescient Lem was. Some of the dialogue between the book's

Readers are revisiting Stanislaw Lem's 1986 science fiction novel 'Fiasco', with one reader noting that dialogue between the book's characters and artificial intelligence reads like modern conversations with large language models, four decades after the book was written. The observation is fuelling fresh praise for Lem's foresight about machine intelligence and human-AI communication.

Why now: The rapid rise of conversational AI has made Lem's decades-old predictions feel strikingly relevant to current readers.

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• Just finished "Fiasco" by Stanislaw Lem. It's frightening how prescient Lem was. Some of the dialogue between the book's characters and AI could be pulled from chats I had with an LLM 40 years after the book was written. And that's just one aspect why it's a fascinating, yet… · ShadowZone · 9

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