When it came out in 2013, the movie Her was set in the “slight future.”

That “slight future” is, astonishingly, here. After all, AI-powered chatbots actually are a real thing now, and people are falling in love with them. It’s remarkable that the 2013 Spike Jonze sci-fi romance about a lonely mustachioed man, played by Joaquin Phoenix, talking to a robot in an earbud proved to be so prescient.

Still, much of our AI-dominated future is still taking shape.

To be sure, millions of people already use AI in its various shapes and forms. ChatGPT set a record for the fastest-growing app in early 2024, and the United Nations forecasts that the global AI market will be worth nearly $5 trillion by 2033. A lot of this growth is bound to happen on an industrial scale as AI streamlines everything fr

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