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What alchemy and astrology can teach artificial intelligence researchers

  • Written by Ben Shneiderman, Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland
Alchemists' dreams distracted from real scientific goals.Justus Gustav van Bentum/Wikimedia Commons

Artificial intelligence researchers and engineers have spent a lot of effort trying to build machines that look like humans and operate largely independently. Those tempting dreams have distracted many of them from where the real progress is already...

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