Everywhere you turn nowadays, you hear about the immanent triumph of intelligent machines over humans. They will take our jobs, they will make their own decisions, they will be even more intelligent than humans, they pose a threat to humanity (per Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk). Marc Andreesen recently summed up on Twitter TWTR +5.88% the increased hubbub about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence: “From ‘It’s so horrible how little progress has been made’ to ‘It’s so horrible how much progress has been made’ in one step.
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