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Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI

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The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence

There is this notion that if we produce a machine that can think, it will out thank us and therefore replace us. I guess that's thats a primal fear. Then the psychology, if you've thought about it now, there's a practical set of fears concerns. It reminds me of when i was in santa fe, i knew a lot of archaeologists, which was a hobby of mine. But what about the big picture? A very distinguished archaeologist said to me, they don't think that way, yo. D kno, they're trying to match the shard to the where it came from.

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