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For the foreseeable future, technological innovation will be driven by humans, not self-improving AI systems, so there won't be a "singularity" (Ted Chiang/New Yorker)

Ted Chiang / New Yorker: For the foreseeable future, technological innovation will be driven by humans, not self-improving AI systems, so there won't be a “singularity”  —  We fear and yearn for “the singularity.”  But it will probably never come.  —  In the eleventh century, St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed …
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