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The Two Minds of Artificial Intelligence

For seventy years, AI has oscillated between machines that reason and machines that learn. Its next breakthrough may come from putting them back together.

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Aug 20, 2026
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Artificial intelligence began with a surprisingly simple proposition.

Reasoning might be mechanical.

Not easy. Not necessarily human. But reducible, at least in principle, to operations that could be d…

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