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Megathreat: Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity | Mo Gawdat Pt 1

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

CHAPTER

The Prisoner Dilemma

When I coded computers in my early years, those machines were dumb and stupid. They had an IQ of one, literally no IQ at all. We don't do that anymore. We tell the machine how to find out what it needs to do. So we give it algorithms and the algorithms are very straightforward. Two developers in a garage in Singapore can develop something and release it on the open internet. And you know, some of them will get it wrong every time but by pure luck they'll get it right 60% of the time.

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