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Edge Annual Question for 2015 WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK? https://www.edge.org/responses/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think
Pamela McCorduck responds: "AI is an epochal scientific, technological, and social—human—event. We've developed a new mind, to live side by side with ours. If we handle it wisely, it can bring immense benefits, from the planetary to the personal....
Here's my belief: We long to save and preserve ourselves as a species. For all the imaginary deities throughout history we've petitioned, which failed to save and protect us—from nature, from each other, from ourselves—we're finally ready to call on our own enhanced, augmented minds instead. It's a sign of social maturity that we take responsibility for ourselves. We are as gods, Stewart Brand famously said, and we may as well get good at it." -- https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26024
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