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Learning, Thinking and AI

I have a partly joking, partly serious argument: if there’s anyone to blame for the sad state of the world today, it’s the men in cafés of Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Viennese Influence on Selfhood and Science In those cafés, men sketched new accounts of the self and the […]

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What and why I think about AI and humanity?

I met Marvin Minsky in a conference in Toronto in 2013. After his keynote, I wanted to ask him something I had recently thought about. I approached him, introduced myself, chit-chat a bit about Finland with him and his wife, who had some friends from Finland. Then I said something like this: “As we humans […]