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Siri and Alexa popularized the experience of conversing with machines, but this was on the next level, approaching a fluency that resembled science fiction.Д«efore you can pursue that idea further, youвЂ™re back into the article, where you find the author has taken you to a building complex in suburban Iowa. You need a command of the spelling and syntactic patterns of English you need to understand not just the dictionary definitions of words but also the ways they relate to one another you have to be familiar enough with the high standards of magazine publishing to assume that the missing word is not just a typo, and that editors are generally loath to omit key words in published pieces unless the author is trying to be clever - perhaps trying to use the missing word to make a point about your cleverness, how swiftly a human speaker of English can conjure just the right word. It might seem like second nature, this filling-in-the-blank exercise, but doing it makes you think of the embedded layers of knowledge behind the thought. The missing word jumps into your consciousness almost unbidden: вЂвЂthe very last word of the first paragraph.вЂ™вЂ™ ThereвЂ™s no sense of an internal search query in your mind the word вЂвЂparagraphвЂ™вЂ™ just pops out.

But then the strangest thing happens: You notice that the writer has, seemingly deliberately, omitted the very last word of the first. A revolution is coming in machine intelligence, the author argues, and we need, as a society, to get better at anticipating its consequences. The title suggested a story about a promising - but also potentially dangerous - new technology on the cusp of becoming mainstream, and after reading only a few sentences, you find yourself pulled into the story. You open a magazine to an article youвЂ™ve been meaning to read. Perhaps you have a mug of tea in hand, perhaps something stronger. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold winterвЂ™s night.

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