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Ai not AI

Like bringing a forklift into the weight room

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray
Sep 23, 2024
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One good thing about the current humans-vs-machines brouhaha is that a a lot of very smart people are throwing very smart words at it. Just one of many noteworthy passages from Stephen Fry’s recent talk at King’s College, AI: The means to an end or a means to the end?:

Just as the success of the automobile was enabled by enormous supplies of crude oil composed of m…

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