These constant retreats into self constitute the most significant difference between Austen’s world and ours: people spend so much time quietly sitting and thinking, if only because there’s nothing else to do.
Alexandra Samuel
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Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter →
Our overly optimistic views about the power of artificial intelligence can mask just how truly difficult it is to model human intelligence. A singularity-like event is perhaps much further away than AI-proponents like to say.