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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
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