By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026AI's investor story - and the science fiction tales of AI's eventual capabilities that underpin that investor story - makes heavy use of this conjurer's trick, in which two different outcomes are equated to one another because they resemble each other. 20/ 1666
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026This "ignore the journey, focus on the destination" idea is baked *very deeply* into the way we think about AI. Take the "Turing Test," a complicated and nuanced thought-experiment proposed in 1950. 21/ 1604
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026Over the ensuing 75 years, Turing's thought-experiment has been stripped down into a blunt metric: "Can a chatbot trick a human into thinking it is also human?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin... 22/en.wikipedia.orgTimeline of artificial intelligence - Wikipedia 1414