The number of times that things happen in the movies is not a tremendous indicator of how frequently they will happen in real life. I don't think it's gonna be like Terminator. I think we're gonna find that these machines are our partners. They can do things, we can solve problems. We can't and we will collectively do more than either of us could do individually. That's today and tomorrow. As far as will they eventually so completely surpass us that we become unnecessary in some way? Well, allow me to just say, fantasy. Go to the polite one at that.
Can machine learning predict the outcome of basketball games? On this episode of StarTalk: Sports Edition, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O’Reilly, and Chuck Nice talk machine learning with computer scientist and author of The Factor Man, Matt Ginsberg.
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