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The Great AI Blabbermouth

Artificial intelligence has exploded like an artificial H-bomb, leaving a mushroom cloud of hype in its wake. But here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit: What we call “artificial intelligence” is neither artificial nor intelligent. It’s essentially a sophisticated human-made pattern recognition system with some degree of self-modification and a notorious inclination to hallucinate. Read…

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Automobiles must be immediately outlawed

We frequently hear about self-driving cars that make mistakes and cause accidents. Some of those accidents are deadly. However, the assumption that self-driving cars are the wrong idea and should be – both by definition and by law – forbidden misses the larger picture. Let’s look at it from a historical perspective. Read…