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Common Sense A.I. might be coming sooner than you think

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So, here's a photo of a bunch of books that just happen to be sitting on my work desk, looking all majestic and intellectual. This is the sort of thing that a lot of people over the past few weeks have started to strategically place behind themselves for those all important conference calls, where other people will be looking and trying to eye up, "so what books do you have behind you?....oh, maybe I should read some of those and then I'll be as smart as you". That could be why these books are not behind me, they are infront and to the side, I can see them but you cannot.  What is behind me? hang on, let me turn around and look......a MASSIVE 3D printer with a Playstation 2 Time Crisis gun on the bed (absolutely no idea, maybe I found it in a cupboard and it was making it's way off the "games room", but I got distracted), some photo's of my MG F over the years taken by professional photographers as I was entering "event/shows" and a

Got a bit distracted (again)

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Okay, so whilst I've been championing the "Do Something else...." mantra (and then promptly did some work over the weekend, but it was by choice, not pressured), I managed to hookup the equipment that I had for my old radio controlled boat. Now, I confess, I did not build this boat.  I did have a boat that I built when I was about 14-ish, it was a 4ft massive beast that I built with my grandad, he managed to get hold of an old glow-plug engine that baffled me and before we had the chance to fit it, I returned home and the boat never got finished.  Then when I was about 21-ish, I sold the boat to my sisters husband (at the time), who was an RC car enthusiast, he rebuilt the engine and got it working, but never fitted it into the boat - I then bought the boat back and was going to get the radio gear and finish it off......then it sat in a cupboard for many many years until I eventually decided it should go to someone who will finish it off, yep, I put it on eBay and it w