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On the Pretence to Artificial Intelligence: Part II

Real intelligence is alive, volitional, sovereign. Artifice is none of those things. So what exactly is so-called A.I.? In Part II, Charles Pardoe makes the case for a more honest term: extelligence. A servant, not a being. The task ahead is keeping it that way.

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