Nick Bostrom says, it will overtake us: “ Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.” A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we’re building right now, driven by thinking machines. Or will they acquire values of their own? The talk of Nick Bostrom on TedX I work with a bunch of mathematicians, philosophers and computer scientists, and we sit around and think about the future of machine intelligence, among other subjects. Some people think that some of these things are sort of science fiction, far out there, crazy.