The Bot Crossing Point

Wednesday, October 15th, 2014

In the last quarter of 2011, more iPhones were sold than babies were born, John Robb notes:

That’s interesting because that is also the quarter that Siri shipped.

FYI: Apple’s Siri is the first mass market bot that was designed to act like a human.

In hindsight, this apparently minor observation may be considered something more important: a tombstone milestone for humanity.

It’s the quarter when our future replacements on this planet began to outpace us.

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