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bemildred

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34. What a moron.

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 06:42 AM

Oct 2014

Like anybody in government would have the foggiest idea what to encourage or prevent when it comes to "artificial intelligence", so as to prevent "something foolish". Or anybody else for that matter. It's the unknown unknowns that destroy your planet.

Anyway, what we do is artificial calculation, not artificial intelligence. Simple stuff.

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