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Leyvorne Swygert

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Article text courtesy of nytimes.com

Attack of the 50-Foot A.I.

Artificial intelligence is a common bugbear in science fiction. Think of HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” for example, or Skynet in the “Terminator” films. The soulless, malevolent computer we create that, in return, destroys us. And right now, you can’t lob a digital brick without hitting half a dozen headlines about the latest trick that A.I. has pulled off. Are we conniving at our own obsolescence, and should we be stockpiling the insoluble logic problem for when our toasters and phones rise up against us?