There Is No A.I. | The New Yorker

There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.

Save this story Save this story As a computer scientist, I don’t like the term “A.I.” In fact, I think it’s misleading—maybe even a little dangerous. Everybody’s already using the term , and it might seem a little late in the day to be arguing about it. But we’re at the beginning of a new technological era—and the easiest way to mismanage a technology is to misunderstand it. The term “ artificial intelligence ” has a long history—it was coined in the nineteen-fifties, in the early days of computers. More recently, computer scientists have grown up on movies like “The Terminator” and “ The Matr

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