Fear & Coding: An Idiot’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence

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The smartest people I know who do personally work on AI think the scaremongering coming from people who don’t work on AI is lunacy. — Marc Andreessen, Twitter

“We made you as well as we could make you.”

“But not to last.”

— Blade Runner

Now that we live in an informational multiverse, it is possible to confront a field of knowledge completely new to you. I have recently been hired by a company to produce a philosophical appraisal of a number of connected subjects, one of these being Artificial Intelligence, or AI, a subject about which I know — or knew — next to nothing. Whereas in a past well within my lifetime this would have meant many book purchases and visits to libraries for the required literature, it is now of course possible to sit out in the...

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