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Re:DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman says general AI is still a lo... by noobermin on Monday December 05, 2016 @09:42AM (#13105590)
>The recent advances in Deep Learning etc. is the improvement of AI to solve some of these specific tasks

AI improving in those specific tasks are bound to affect people today, it's just the comfy CEO and his pals are not going to be outsourced (or AIsourced or whatever) any time soon, although it might happen eventually.

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Re:DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman says general AI is still a lo... by denzil_correa on Monday December 05, 2016 @09:50AM (#13105633)
I never claimed that it does not affect people. Sure, it does but a general purpose AI seems far off the block technically.
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