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In the 21st century, people use the internet and Artificial Intelligence as a basis for learning about the world and interacting with it. This interaction uses hardware. For centuries leading up to the end of the 20th century, widespread knowledge was based on books. Printed books came about because of the invention of the printing …
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In the 21st century, people rely on a vast database — the internet — of so-called reliable information. People can make verbal or written queries to acquire answers. Well over 3,300 years ago, in and around Athens, Greece, a man named Aristotle assembled a huge database of knowledge. He and his assistants recorded on papyri …
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In the early 21st century, Artificial Intelligence is still in its infancy — its ultimate purpose and direction unknown. Nevertheless, people are grappling to interact with A.I. to provide guidance and insight. This is a complex relationship. Well over 3,000 years ago, the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt had their own kind of “Artificial Intelligence,” but …
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Artificial Intelligence in the 21st century is a complex interaction among algorithms, hardware, and humans. People ask the computers about their situations and concerns and get some kind of answer. Their situations could be about the present or the future. Is this a science and technology basis for astrology and horoscopes? People exhort A.I. to …
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In the 21st century, people use Artificial Intelligence without a full understanding of its ultimate power and direction. The evolution of A.I. is just beginning. For over 2,000 years, however, there has been a kind of “artificial” intelligence — but there is nothing “artificial” about it. This “intelligence” is the Bible. Ask the Bible a …
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In the 21st century, people are beginning to rely on Artificial Intelligence. To what extent eventually for logic and reasoning no one knows. In the late 17th century and early 20th century, Issac Newton lived. Through his mathematics, he made clear the past, present and future. Because of his calculations, humankind finally could know where …
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Artificial Intelligence in the 21st century threatens people who feel their livelihoods will become extinct. This is because they fear that A.I. is “taking over” the creative and administrative tasks that people rely on for wages. They feel insecure that A.I. can do their jobs more efficiently and precisely. In the early 19th century, there …
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