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Here’s something new to consider being thankful for at the dinner table: the long evolutionary journey that gave you your big brain and your long life.
Are you going to be replaced by a machine? Could a robot really be curious? Or experience love? Could a computer plot evil? Some really smart people think machines will achieve not just human but super human consciousness. Oxford professor of mathematics John Lennox and Baylor University computer engineer Robert J. Marks disagree. Non-algorithmic properties are solely attributes of humans. Computers will never show the creativity, empathy, or love that human beings do.
Suzana Herculano-Houzel’s profile on The Conversation
What's a credible dystopian nightmare for a leading writer on AI and Big Data? "It's going to be the size of a mosquito and it'll be an aerial drone".
It isn’t a superior grasp of the technology involved that drives some to warn that AI will achieve superiority over human beings.