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Dag Kittlaus
“Hollywood has documented our fascination with artificial intelligence, and our ability to communicate with AI, for decades—think of HAL 9000 or the movie Her. But we’re still in the early stages—we don’t yet know with enough specificity how the brain processes language to rebuild it in that way. In Her, Scarlett Johansson plays an AI operating system that’s able to learn popular culture through language innately. At one point, Joaquin Phoenix’s character says to her, ‘No way,’ and she’s like, ‘Way.’ Something like that is currently beyond a computer’s ability to understand and learn, because it doesn’t…