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Readers Remind Us: The Terminator Warned About AI Back in 1984
Two letters in The Guardian make a quiet but pointed observation: decades before today's AI anxiety, a cold-war research group and a Hollywood robot both saw this coming.
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Policy
They warned us about AI tyranny in 1972. We still didn't listen.
A forgotten gathering of experts on Lake Como mapped out political coercion, eroded human freedom and the dangers of automation. Half a century later, their warnings feel uncomfortably current.
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Explained
The 'Bitter Lesson': Why Raw Computing Power Keeps Beating Human Expertise in AI
A 2019 essay by a leading AI researcher laid out a principle that has shaped every major AI breakthrough since. The short version: brute-force scale wins, every time.
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The Original Chatbot Had Many Faces, and We Never Knew It
ELIZA, the 1960s program that convinced people a computer understood them, turns out to be far stranger and more capable than anyone realised. Newly unearthed source code changes the story.
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