MIT Technology Review: Will computers ever feel responsible?

Machines may never acquire humans’ innate know-how.

Bold technology predictions pave the road to humility. Even titans like Albert Einstein own a billboard or two along that humbling freeway. In a classic example, John von Neumann, who pioneered modern computer architecture, wrote in 1949, “It would appear that we have reached the limits of what is possible to achieve with computer technology”...

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Many thanks to Allison Arieff, MIT Technology Review Editorial Director.

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