Alan Jacobs


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Charlie Stross on A.I. hype: “The real promise here is that corporations will be able to replace many of their flawed, expensive, slow, human information-processing sub units with bits of software, thereby speeding things up and reducing their overheads.” As David Streitfeld, the author of the article, says, “Despite all the talk of A.I. being an unlimited wealth-generating machine, the people getting rich are pretty much the ones who are already rich.”