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Silicon Valley is still riding high on what seems like an unending wave of Wall Street enthusiasm. Investments in artificial intelligence continue to eclipse expectations, with Bloomberg reporting that financiers plan to plow some $700 billion into the industry this year alone. AI stocks now account for roughly a third of the entire stock market…

The large language models (LLMs) that have captivated the world are among the most powerful tools ever built. Many can give PhD-level answers to virtually every discipline under the Sun. They are revolutionary. But for all this brilliance, they are, in a fundamental sense, blind. They know the world the way a scholar locked in…