A researcher defines artificial intelligence as any non-biological entity whose behavior can only be predicted by treating it as an agent executing complicated plans, and argues that Uruk (a city that formed in southern Iraq around 4000 BC) was the first such AI—beginning as a grain-pooling institution run by a temple.
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