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What is artificial intelligence?

From taming fire to building minds: the 17,000-year story ends with machines that learn. Clear-eyed — no hype, no doom — the mirror wakes.

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Seventeen thousand years ago, this series began with a hominin carrying fire home. It ends here, with humanity building something that learns: not a tool that extends the hand, but a mirror that extends the mind.

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