It should be the new Silicon Valley, using its advanced artificial intelligence research as its primary economic export.

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It would appear that the development of advanced artificial intelligence, including Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) technology, has significant potential to improve the situation.

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Watson is the latest collaboration between IBM and Rensselaer, the oldest technological university in the U.S. The company and the university have worked together for decades to advance the frontiers of high-performance computing, nanoelectronics, advanced materials, artificial intelligence, and other areas.

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Deru and his partner, Simon Bergweiler, work at the Advanced Tangible Interface Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.

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