(this is from the original Blade Runner, for anyone wondering)

I love this being quoted here because while it superficially seems that this interaction is interacting with an AI in a conversational way, it shows tool use that is at the opposite end of what interacting with modern AI tends to be like/what AI marketing wants it to be.

In this scene:

- the user is guiding the tool step by step to a desired outcome, rather than giving a broad vague result that the tool gets to arbitrarily

- the user knows intimately the specific technical capabilities of the tool

- every command is phrased to be unambiguous and lead to a deterministic result

Imagine if instead all of the above, Deckard just gave a broad request, eg “can you help me find who the killer is by analyzing this picture”?

We'll really be in the future when this feature allows looking around corners like in the movie.

You can already do that with some of the other AI generators. Whatever you see around the corner is all hallucinated of course.

Real-life Enemy of the State, but in the worst possible way.

Red Dwarf did it better.