This kind of magical thinking is not without a cost. Last year, for example, an EU Parliament document hyperbolically claimed that " AI can be thought of as the fifth element after air, earth, water, and fire." Not a small part of the exorbitant investment in AI can be traced back to magical thinking. In the 1980s, data scientist Josef Weizenbaum warned about the " magical thinking" around technology, saying that the only people in awe were the people who misunderstood the technology. ![]() Everyone leaves the movie comforted that technology has won the day. ![]() In so many sci-fi movies, the resolution of the plot is that of deus ex machina―literally, a "god in the machine." In these movie endings, a highly improbable development solves a seemingly intractable problem, leading to a happy ending, without reflection, or even reason.
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