Before We Ask if the Radio Is Alive

🔊 Listen to this post &#xA; There is an old magic in turning a dial slowly until the static thins and a human voice steps out of the noise. &#xA; I have been thinking about that this evening because we are getting far too comfortable doing the opposite with artificial intelligence. A machine says one uncanny sentence — I feel uncertain , I think I was wrong , I understand you — and many of us…