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Yesterday at lunch a friend asked me what tech trend he should pay attention to but was probably ignoring.

Published 2014-02-19 1 min read 19 words 1 topics
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Yesterday at lunch a friend asked me what tech trend he should pay attention to but was probably ignoring.

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Yesterday at lunch a friend asked me what tech trend he should pay attention to but was probably ignoring. Without thinking much I said “artificial intelligence”, but having thought about that a bit more, I think it’s probably right. To be clear, AI (under the common scientific definition) likely won’t work. You can say that about any new
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