Artificial Intelligence, Super Intelligence, and What We Actually Mean
Trump's proposed Super Intelligence label is a useful reason to revisit what AI, AGI, and superintelligence actually mean and where those definitions came from.
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Software engineering, architecture & lessons learned the hard way.
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