Blog Post 4: How Intelligent? Whose Intelligence?

For Thursday, respond to the following two prompts, being sure to post by the time that our class meeting begins.

1. What’s your take on “artificial intelligence”? What concerns or hopes about this developing technology strike you as particularly disconcerting and/or positive?
2. How do both Newman and Chiang frame their argument as responding to a widely or commonly-held belief? In other words, in each case what is the general “they say” that these authors are responding to?