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Building a dAIty

Posted on September 11, 2017October 4, 2018 by Josh Cowls

How do you solve a problem like problem-solving? That is the motivating question behind efforts to develop general artificial intelligence — a quest brought vividly to life by Max Tegmark in his new book, Life 3.0…

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