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Kevin Kelly on the Future, Productivity, and the Quality of Life

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The Singularity of Artificial Intelligence

There are a number of people who are worried about machines, artificial intelligence technology, quote, taking over the world. But I'm not; my reasons for unword may be a little complicated, but let me see if I can state it briefly. The basis of my non-worry comes from the fact that I think the idea of universal computation is a myth. And so what we're going to do is there's really no more reason to make human-like intelligence because we can do it so easily with untrained workforce.

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