Robots are not about to take over... Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and other very smart people are amazingly (to me, anyway) credulous on the subject of artificial intelligence and the dangers thereof. So far as I'm concerned, that's on a par with people in the 1800s being terrified that going 50 MPH would prevent us from breathing (an actual, published, widely-believed fear). Why? This fellow has a good post about that. And here MIT offers some additional evidence, though that's not their intent. They're saying “Wow! Look at this! We built a robot that (sort of) learned how to grasp things, on its own (sort of)!” I read that article and think: 60 years of research and AI can't even duplicate one of the many feats of learning of a human infant.
The singularity isn't close at hand, folks. It's not even within sight of the Hubble telescope, wealthy and smart pundits notwithstanding...
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