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We believe in artificial intelligence the same way we believe in ghosts

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Hidden in the 1950 academic paper that launched the famous 'Turning Test' of machine intelligence, is a strange mystery. Cryptographer Alan Turning argued that humans might always be able to outsmart machines, because we have supernatural powers like ESP, telepathy, and telekinesis. His belief in the paranormal is just one part of the spooky side of artificial intelligence. Like hauntings or seances, AI is an exercise in self-deception; we imagine intelligence from computation and data, just like we imagine ghosts from strange lights and bumps in the night.

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