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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Good Taste in Artificial Intelligence

Alan Turing worked on fairly esoteric problems in essentially mathematical logic. I'm certain that he had an instinctive sense that they were much more fundamental things. He gets that this is tremendously important, but it could only be explained legibly after the fact. AI is very goal-directed though. It's sort of easier, I think, in the right way.

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