The Prefix Bubble

A mobile gadget shop in my location, three centuries of evidence, and the part of the AI debate that almost no one is having. I walk down near my location after luch on a humid afternoon, I pass a mobile-phone shop. It is a modest place. It sells SIM cards, prepaid top-ups, refurbished phones, laptop accessories. The shopkeeper has been there for years. A few days ago, the signboard above the door changed. The new name is Ai Gadgets. There is no neural network in the building. There is no mo...