Soul in the machine: who needs enemies when you have Artificial Friends?
Kazuo Ishiguro tells a story set in a futuristic world filled with strangeness but similar enough to ours to cause anxiety
17 May 2021 - 20:01
“If AI can help us as a society to not only save the environment, cure disease and explore the universe, but also better understand ourselves — well, that may prove one of the greatest discoveries of them all.” So said Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a company that deems artificial intelligence to be one of humanity’s most useful inventions and is aiming to build advanced AI to expand our knowledge...
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