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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."

However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …

What a Sixty-Five-Year-Old Book Teaches Us About A.I.

The New YorkerFeb-25-2023, 11:00:00 GMT

Neural networks have become shockingly good at generating natural-sounding text, on almost any subject. If I were a student, I'd be thrilled--let a chatbot write that five-page paper on Hamlet's indecision!--but if I were a teacher I'd have mixed feelings. On the one hand, the quality of student essays is about to go through the roof. On the other, what's the point of asking anyone to write anything anymore? Luckily for us, thoughtful people long ago anticipated the rise of artificial intelligence and wrestled with some of the thornier issues.

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