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Death by AI

One man's struggle with his mortality.

The Google AI Overview for my name consisted of some basic biographical information about me, along with a list of questions under the heading "People also ask." Google is a huge company with a vast network of computers processing more than a billion trilobites of data every second, which is all the more impressive when we consider the fact that a trilobite is a marine creature that became extinct 250 million years ago, which I think we can all agree is a good thing because it looked like a giant cockroach with way too many legs: We can learn that although Artificial Intelligence is an awesomely powerful tool that according to experts is going to completely transform human existence, it is not very bright.

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