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“Ex Machina”: The End of Turing’s Man and the Paradigm Shift in Artificial Intelligence, by Alan N. Shapiro and Franco Torriani

March 9th, 2016 in the categories: Artificial Intelligence

The founder and CEO of the mega-company Bluebook is a genius programmer who wrote the source code of the Bluebook search engine when he was 15. Philosophically, the CEO is a technological determinist. He believes that Artificial Intelligence is inevitable. AI is a simple linear outgrowth of, or extrapolation from, the further incremental development of computer science as we know it. The breakthrough of Artificial Intelligence, for Nathan, is not such a big deal. It's on its way, it's coming to a theatre near you.