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quietbritishjimyesterday at 8:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

Exoskeleton is such an obvious metaphor for AI (at least, one potential ways of using it) that surely no one, human or AI, could possibly claim credit for it.


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garciasnyesterday at 9:32 PM

I had been explaining it to others as 'My Iron Man suit' before reading the exoskeleton essay, months later. So, you are definitely correct.

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nothingness456yesterday at 11:08 PM

I think the first usage of this metaphor in its modern meaning belongs to Norbert Wiener