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Alex Rampell on why AI is still underhyped and how it will diffuse inside companies. “Not to oversimplify human behavior, but it’s, ‘I want to be lazy and I want to be rich.’” “There’s somebody at every big company who has figured out, ‘I can do something in one... show more

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