When you have an informed public then you can really advance society. And when you have a misinformed public, it could be a recipe for disaster. And that one of the cloudy parts of the Internet is how much misinformation is proliferating out there and taking on a life of its own.
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Although many may not recognize his name, most people today are very familiar with the foundational technology that Doug Engelbart pioneered beginning in the 1960s.
I have a few examples of things that are starting to happen. And you can see that AI normally stands for artificial intelligence, but I’ve often concluded it stands for “artificial idiot.” And the reason is very simple. It turns out that these systems are good, but they’re good in kind of narrow ways.