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Re:Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? by make3 on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:40PM (#13741426)
As a professional scientist in AI and deep learning, I see futurists making wild predictions about AI that I wouldn't see anyone serious in the field coming remotely close to making. I don't know how it is with other futurism fields like genetics, space travel and energy generation, but I expect that it's a similar situation.

All I'm trying to say is, let's please keep a cool head and a wholly skeptical approach about all this.

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Re:Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? by Houshalter on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:30AM (#13754934)
But the survey I posted that started this discussion was a survey of experts in AI.

Note that no one is claiming that skynet will appear any day now. Just that we will very likely have human-level AI in a few decades. I don't think that's a terribly wild or speculative claim.

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