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TO SET MAKE AN AN AI AI

We have previously suggested that a robot-controlled future in which humans are hunted for sport is a likely one, but we’ve had a bit of trouble with our blood pressure lately, and have decided techno-utopianism is just as reasonable, in the style of Iain M Banks’ Culture novels.

The crucial difference here is that, while the murderous AI of the Terminator is a human invention, the benevolent Minds that oversee the Culture are AIs built by AIs, and it seems to work out better that way.

There’s a step in microchip design known as floorplanning, in

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