Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun explains why we’ll never love AI

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun explains why we’ll never love AI

By AMIT KATWALA

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Your visual cortex does two incredible things, thousands of times a second.

First, it takes all the information streaming in through your retinas and passes it through a series of steps – looking first for patches of dark and light, then for features such as lines and edges, then for simple recognisable shapes like this letter ‘A’, working up to household objects like a toaster or kettle, or individual faces, like your grandmother, or the person who you used to see every day at the bus stop on the way to work.

The second incredible thing it does is to completely forget that it’s done any of that at all.

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