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Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by Cozumel on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:12PM (#15012386)
>'If someone was to create AI that is human-equivalent (aka strong AI)'

Creating AI with human level intelligence isn't going to be so great, most people are complete idiots. Creating AI with above human intelligence is a different story.

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Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by dunkelheit on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:36PM (#15013652)
A well-known "paradox" states that tasks that require savant-level intelligence from humans (like playing chess) are actually doable with computers, but tasks that any idiot can do (say, pouring yourself a cup of tea) are crazy hard.
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