Artificial Intelligence: What happened to the hunt for thinking machines?

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Artificial Intelligence: What happened to the hunt for thinking machines?

The idea of creating a sentient machine has fascinated mankind for centuries. And while sci-fi offers artificial intelligences that rival our own, the fiction bears little resemblance to real world AI.

AI is all around us, not as a synthetic overlord, but as specialised software that help fly planes and run factory production lines. For many, the idea of creating thinking machines has become a dist...

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