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“As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's not for want of trying.”

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Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are…

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