thoughtsignals

Where’s the boundary between you and machine, between the gray matter in your skull and the digital technology that governs the Internet and so much else in modern life? It may be harder to find than you think.

What is spreading through the Web is not exactly artificial intelligence. For all the research that has gone into cognitive and computer science, the brain’s most formidable algorithms — those used to recognize images or sounds or understand language — have eluded simulation. The alternative has been to incorporate people, with their special skills, as components of the Net.

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