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"A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the size of Stanford’s entire student body."

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"Watson is an effort by I.B.M. researchers to advance a set of techniques used to process human language. It provides striking evidence that computing systems will no longer be limited to responding to simple commands. Machines will increasingly be able to pick apart jargon, nuance and even riddles. In attacking the problem of the ambiguity of human language, computer science is now closing in on what researchers refer to as the “Paris Hilton problem” — the ability, for example, to determine whether a query is being made by someone who is trying to reserve a hotel in France, or simply to pass time surfing the Internet."

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"The last chapter of Dooling's new work, Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ, considers what will happen to religious belief in the coming age of Higher Tech. It includes the opening chapters of the book of Genesis as if they had been rewritten by Microsoft contract lawyers ("The Source Code of Good and Evil you shall NOT view, for the day you view it you will surely die"), then tweaked by our coming open-source friendly robot overlords ("The one true God runs the universe in UNIX")."

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