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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
Kevin Kelly
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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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