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New normal: an understated view of AI
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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Most visions of an AI-fueled future skew toward bold claims of utopia or apocalypse. But a new paper argues that the technology might not differ so much from the revolutions that have come before it.
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