The Mapmaker Has a Genre
A researcher at Google DeepMind published a paper this month with a big claim: AI can never be conscious. Not because we haven't built the right AI yet. Because of something more basic — something about what computers ac…
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The Students Already Built the Knowledge Infrastructure. The College Paid Millions to Replace It.
Reanna Carlson, student government vice president at Fresno City College, wanted to know if the campus food pantry was open. She asked the college's AI chatbot. It gave her a wrong answer. She added a typo to her query b…