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How does AI picture itself? Google Gemini has thoughts

How we picture artificial intelligence is unsettled. I've seen cover images and editorial cartoons riffing on oversized machines, a hollow head, Frankenstein's monster, blue mannequins, and a glowing web. It's certainly more challenging than picturing a robot. 

So I asked Google's Gemini AI what it thought about human efforts so far. It responded that most illustrations fall into these knee-jerk ca

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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
― James R. Chiles, Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology: An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen

“Consistency, say some, is the sign of a small mind, but it’s a real virtue with high-power technology. Having lots of the same devices out in the field lets us compile a record of experience.”
― James R. Chiles, Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology: An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen

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