"Software brain: the idea that we can force the real world to act like a computer and then have AI issue that computer instructions. [...]
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them."
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation
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