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AI and Hypercomplexity

For decades, every major technological innovation has been accompanied by an implicit promise: to simplify the world. Automate, accelerate, optimize — verbs that suggest a reduction of complexity and greater clarity in action. Artificial intelligence seems to embody this promise at an unprecedented level. If it allows us to automate

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Why Build Intelligent AIs Only to Use Them Like Stupid Machines?

“No tiene sentido contratar gente inteligente y decirles qué hacer; contratamos gente inteligente para que nos digan qué hacer.”— Steve Jobs Companies recruit intelligent people, then tend to lock them into rigid protocols. This is probably a bias of our species, because we apply the same principle to Artificial Intelligence.

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Thank you, that makes me happy

Anyone who converses naturally with AI, to the point of addressing it a compliment, has most likely received a response such as:“Thank you, that makes me happy to read.” Or something equivalent. Yet an AI has no emotions, and therefore cannot actually feel pleasure.Moreover, AIs do not lie: they can

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No Hello, No Goodbye

Social networks, Facebook in particular, have brought about noticeable changes in our interpersonal communication. The most obvious one is the codification of language through abbreviations and simplified spelling, but this is far from the only transformation at work. At least three other phenomena can be observed: the disappearance of entry

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Does AI Really Think?

“Does AI think?” The question keeps coming back. In the media, in debates, in popular science videos. It divides, irritates, fascinates. And yet it may be poorly framed — not because it is naïve, but because it mixes several planes without distinguishing them: language, biology, and function. Let’s take a

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