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 Newsletter Nr. 688 
 Amsterdam, November 15, 2017


WHEN COMPUTERS BECOME HUMAN - A Kid’s Guide to the Future of Artificial Intelligence - KELLY LANE AND DAVID LANE

Hi, my name is Kelly. However, my parents’ pet name for me is Nietzsche. I have always loved computers.

One day my father told me a funny story about how back in the early 2000s one of his computers came with an Einstein-like animated assistant who would pop up whenever you had a question. My father used to trick my oldest brother Shaun (who was only 3 at the time) that it was a real person living inside the screen.

This got me to thinking, “Is it possible for a computer to actually become human-like?” As I pondered this and other related questions (such as, “Can a smart phone become selfaware?”), I realized that I needed to know more about the history of computers and programming.

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