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The Optimistic Promise of Artificial Intelligence (wsj.com)
1 point by giardini on June 16, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Most significant takeaways [italics mine]:

"...almost anything a typical human can do with less than one second of mental thought, we can probably now or in the near future automate using AI... Take a security guard looking at a video feed and saying, “Are there people in this? Are they doing something suspicious?” That task is actually a lot of one-second judgment thoughts strung together, so I think a lot of it can be automated."

"...tell your children: “Learn to be lifelong learners.”




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