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Artificial intelligence is often described as a Wild West . Usually, this is meant as shorthand for lawlessness: rules lag behind reality,...

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  Had Melquíades, the wandering merchant from Gabriel García Márquez's mythical town of Macondo, arrived today, he might have abandoned ...

  AI is best understood not as something outside human knowledge, but as a new formation within the collective knowledge ecosystem itself. ...