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Patrick Winston

Smart Programs Read Shakespeare

Patrick Winston is Principal Investigator at MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. He believes that creating better artificial intelligence is not a matter of more powerful processing: we have to teach computers how to think more like humans. “We are a symbolic species,” he explains. “We painted caves early in our modern evolution. We […]

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