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by Russell T. Warne In 2022, information media stories1 gave the impression of a science fiction novel come to life: A Google engineer claimed that the corporate’s new synthetic intelligence chatbot was self-aware. Primarily based on interactions with the pc program, referred to as LaMDA, Blake Lemoine acknowledged that this …

A fragment attributed to the traditional Greek poet Archilocus contrasted the fox, who “is aware of many issues,” with the hedgehog, who “is aware of one huge factor.”1 Since then, this dichotomy has been utilized to world leaders, philosophers, economists, psychologists, musicians, writers, even quick meals chains, though generally not …