Artificial intelligence (AI) is prevalent in the news, billed as a super intelligence. As the quip goes: it is hard to make predictions especially about the future but the predictions are that we may get to Artificial Super Intelligence (i.e. when they are way smarter than us) by 2045-2060.
AI is often met by fear. We all know the story of Frankenstein, written 200 years ago: an AI creature turns on his creator. Concerns abound e.g. about ethical/privacy/social and economic considerations. The founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates, suggested that robots that take human jobs should be taxed.
The other view is wonder. Professor Stephen Hawking said: “The potential benefits of creating intelligence are huge, we cannot predict what we might achieve when our own minds are amplified by AI. Every aspect of our lives will be transformed. In short, success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation.”
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