David Autor on the Future of Work and Polanyi's Paradox
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Is There Going to Be Limits?
Is it going to be possible to ever understand what that grandmaster is doing through a chemical analysis of what's going on in the brain? That's an unanswerable question, but I don't know. There's a big debate among our artificial intelligence researchers about how you could go about trying to master human activities with machinery. Some think we have to learn from biology itself; others say all we need is sort of a conceptual world and then machinery can work based on those models.
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