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"“every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”"

"This modest theoretical goal has inflated over the past sixty-four years and is now expressed by Google DeepMind as an ambition to “Solve intelligence.”"

"Taking away the jobs of taxi and truck drivers, roboticizing direct marketing, hegemonizing entertainment, privatizing utilities, and depersonalizing health care—are these the “whips” that Wiener feared we would learn to love?"

"Artists can’t solve any of this. But they can remind us of the creative potential of the paths not taken"

"“[T]hese complex properties emerge from simple laws that contain no concepts like movement or reproduction,” yet they produce “species,” and cells “can even reproduce, just as life does in the real world.”"