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Dogs of Science: Discoveries & Companionship

STEMe

However, dogs have played a separate but equally important role in science as well. The Lascaux cave in South France has over 600 detailed and well-preserved prehistoric artworks, but they would be hidden from the public eye if not for Robot. In 1940, Marcel Ravidat was walking Robot when Robot slipped down a foxhole.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. We might imagine robots building everything, AIs figuring everything out, etc. This equivalence has many consequences.

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