Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them

When it comes to artificial intelligence, we may all be suffering from the fallacy of availability: thinking that creating intelligence is much easier than it is, because we see examples all around us. In a recent poll, machine intelligence experts predicted that computers would gain human-level ability around the year 2050, and superhuman ability less than 30 years after. But, like a tribe on a tropical island littered with World War II debris imagining that the manufacture of aluminum...

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