Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Cutting edge technology is just (a little bit) magical.
1. The Pledge
The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. [...] Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't.
Patterns in space
Patterns in hyper-space
Patterns in time
Patterns within patterns
"Deep" Learning
3. The Prestige
Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".
Deep Dream
Deep Reinforcement Learning
The collision of thought and information processing.
Conciousness is sufficiently advanced technology.
Conciousness is the greatest magic trick there ever was.