How to Write a Poem About Love

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Sydney: The auto complete function is something like what we do as human beings could argue that's how we compose Beethoven in terms of musical composition. We're always of artificial neural networks is what we call the artificial neural networks. And now we train this neural network to auto complete text. So that's what it does, but we don't know how it does it. It doesn't seem sentient. I'd rather not. You can correct me if I wrong the way I understand it is. Thanks so much.

They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable, and misaligned with human values. They're fast becoming as intelligent as humans--and they're exclusively in the hands of profit-seeking tech companies. "They," of course, are the latest versions of AI, which herald, according to neuroscientist and writer Erik Hoel, a species-level threat to humanity. Listen as he tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts why we need to treat AI as an existential threat.