
Threats to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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The Contrast Between AI and Science Fiction
The field of artificial intelligence started out in the 60s and 70s with this grand vision to reproduce what a human brain can do. In reality, around like the late 90s, early aughts, what started happening as the field got traction was we started finding these narrow applications where you could take a simple decision that a human would make. Theoretically you could hire a massive army of humans to look at every single email coming through every mail server on the planet and say, is this mail spam or not? And then put it in the right folder, the inbox or the junk folder. But nobody would actually do that. That's not to say there's no like taking the
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