AI: The Future is Now

Cover illustration for the Corgi paperback edition of The Darftsteller and Other Stories by Walter M. Miller, Jr.Early Warning

Sometime in the 21st century, human actors and writers will become obsolete. Movies, television shows, and even stage plays will be performed by automatons, created from scans of the world’s top human actors and controlled by programs that have replaced human writers and directors.

Surprisingly, that is not a contemporary prediction. It’s a summary of the scien...