With people losing their jobs to artificially-intelligent computers, Out Of My Mind podcast host Jay Douglas tells the story of perhaps the first person to be upended by the new technology. Episode 36 is the tale of Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist who dared to demonstrate how dumb artificial intelligence could be.
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Check out the blog story at The Out Of My Mind Blog. And be sure to read the Mind Doodle at the end of the post for a little-known story about how a single typo in a software program might make you reconsider what you’re willing to trust to an artificially-intelligent computer.
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