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WHEN I was growing up, nobody promised me a flying car. But I was promised an AI apocalypse. Those shiny machines were going to crush our skulls underfoot, and we were all going to welcome our new robot overlords. Remember that? Many people still seem to think it is likely to happen. Well, just like flying cars, it isn’t. But we might still get a deadly AI nightmare. It is just going to be a lot weirder and more insidious than we imagined in the innocent days of Terminators and the Cybermen.
AI is simply software programs that learn from …
