Every indexed document

” per se. I don’t think there’s abstract

so as not to interfere with other channels. The issue gets messier. If we were to

how do we recognize extraterrestrials out there? How do we tell

so it’s a very dramatic straight line. There’s a road in Australia that’s long and

in the celestial mechanics of planetary interactions

they’ll access all that digitized historical data and figure out something

that will no longer be true. If the students know something about

giving us a greater depth of governmental systems

many trivial things would change: Contracts would be written in

because there’s no intermediate language

because the AIs will do a great job communicating with

in a precise and symbolic way. Not only is it

and probably one day it will have a more interesting

and I suspect most of the time people will just

“Why should we care?”—because I thought the

it will tell you what it is. It’s fun to show it an abstract painting

you’d know you were talking to a computer and not a

into a language we could use to communicate with computers? That’s

it’s the same story. There are all kinds of programs out there

the challenge is the same as in physical mining: That is