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It is now perhaps axiomatic to declare that artificial intelligence will revolutionize the world, as researchers and industry insiders are projecting the novel technology to become the greatest…

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At WWDC this year, in the keynote, Apple confirmed something I had been holding as a logical intuition more than as an open question: when the assistant that lives in your phone wants to do something…

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