Is There a Need for Artificial Intelligence?

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I have no trouble whatsoever imagining that we can create in a computer or nudge a computer itself to creating unanticipated life forms. I don't know if you would call it artificial intelligence at all, but something like that could very easily have some of the aspects of life as we know it and not others. There is no known system in ordinary physics where it's really true that even though it has both an area and a volume,. The number of bits of information that we could imagine putting inside it scales like the area of the boundary rather than the volume.

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