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From Chessboards to Chatbots: The Story of Machine Intelligence — and Where It’s Headed

From Chessboards to Chatbots: The Story of Machine Intelligence — and Where It’s Headed Written with CoPilot (2025). If you’ve ever wondered how we got from clunky, room‑filling computers that could just about play chess to conversational AI that can … Continue reading

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Initial thoughts and assumptions about identity and this blog

As a well-trained social scientist of the late 20th Century in Western traditions, one must always begin with assumptions and values. Continue reading

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