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How AI Could Change Apple and Google, Writing and Music, and Everything Else

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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Are You Afraid of Artificial General Intelligence?

This week, there was a breakthrough in brain interface technology that allowed people to produce words on a screen simply by thinking them at a rate four times faster than any previous technology. And it made me think maybe the future is her as a silent film, right? That instead of talking to Scarlett Johansson, you don't even have to say anything. You just think it and the little butt in your ear interprets what you have thought. There are a lot of people who are really afraid of AI. In particular, afraid of what AGI will accomplish.

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