Is There a Risk That Artificial Intelligence Isn't Supplied?

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If you're not extending your mind by engaging your body, the physical space around you and your social interactions, you're actually making yourself dumber. That makes me wonder, of course, about nea enhancement technologies that are in very early stage development. Is there a risk that they're going to be designed only to amplify cognitive capabilities and miss out on some of the kinds of extensions that you've been describing? Yes, yeswell, i think we've already seen that happen with artificial intelligence. I mean, there's been mazing leaps ahead with the artificial intelligence in terms of computers that can play chess or go and beat any human. But then in other ways, artificial intelligence has been

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