IT’S happened: the future of computing can no longer be left to computer
nerds.
Why? Because nerds are virtually all young, male—and childless. We need
more parents in artificial intelligence research. Now. Pronto. Before it is too
late.
Why? Because the original nerd, Alan Turing, famously declared that computers
would be intelligent once their conversation was indistinguishable from that of
a real person. He also said that the best way to do this would be to build a
baby machine, and teach it.
Fair enough. But the brilliant Turing never raised a baby human. Did he stop
to think…
