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Re:The media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy by pjc50 on Monday January 14, 2019 @05:25AM (#18902008)
This is rather like "bits have no colour", which is true if you only look at the bits. It relies on not looking at the context, and then declaring the context irrelevant.
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Re:The media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy by Kalium on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:44AM (#18903799)
Whether something is relevant context or not is a personal and political decision.

Bits don't have color. Nor does arithmetic. The people who use them do, and the things those people do with bits and arithmetic might. It depends on who you ask... and what their politics suggest the appropriate color-carrying context is.

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