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November 27, 2007
Jipi and the paranoid chip
I just stumbled across this wonderful little story by Neal Stephenson: Jipi and the paranoid chip. Just the thing to assign to my students for the discussion of whether computers can be smarter than human beings some day.
In typical Neal Stephenson fashion, it has some of the meandering storyline of a shaggy dog story, with witty details on technology and economics. But fun, especially with the little twist in the penultimate sentence...
Posted by Espen at November 27, 2007 10:05 AM
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Brilliant!
But Mr Andersen: Do yo trust your inputs?
Posted by: Torbjorn at December 10, 2007 5:20 PM