Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI: in her book Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao documents the concentration of obscene wealth, exploitation of labour, climate damage, erosion of democracy and theft of original, creative work. Photograph: Prakash Singh/Bloomberg
Forty years ago, the tenth world computer congress was held at Trinity College Dublin, and one of the topics for discussion was artificial intelligence (AI). This was at a time when, according to Patrick Winston, then head of the AI laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), AI was in the business of “making computers smart”, in response to the contemporary question: “Is it possible to make a computer intelligent?”
Dick Ahlstrom, this newspaper’s “computer world” journalist at that point, elaborated on what, for m
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