The world is a chaotic and confusing place. Could advanced artificial
intelligence help us make sense of it? Well, possibly, except that today’s
“artificial intelligences” are not exactly what you’d call sophisticated. With a
couple of hundred virtual neurons (as opposed to 16 billion neurons in the human
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