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Superintelligent AI: can chatbots think?
FT Tech Tonic
The Debate on AGI, Funding, and Anthropomorphization
This chapter explores the emotional attachment to AGI, the reasons behind companies raising significant amounts of money for AI projects, the difficulty of separating humans and machines when interacting with AI, and the possibility of developing machine intelligences that differ from human intelligence. It concludes with a mention of the tragic story of Hans the horse and teases the next episode on the ideology of AI and its societal impact.
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