Jaron Lanier: "There Is No AI" — 2023 New Yorker Essay

In a 2023 essay published in The New Yorker, tech pioneer Jaron Lanier argues that the concept of "artificial intelligence" is fundamentally misleading. He contends that what we call AI is actually sophisticated tooling built on aggregated human labour and data, not autonomous machine thought.

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