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Artificial intelligence will make you smarter

  • Written by Terrence Sejnowski, Francis Crick Professor and Director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego
People plus machines will surpass the capabilities of either element alone.metamorworks/Shutterstock.com

The future won’t be made by either humans or machines alone – but by both, working together. Technologies modeled on how human brains work are already augmenting people’s abilities, and will only get more influential as society...

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