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05: The Likelihood and Risks of Superintelligent Machines

The World as You’ll Know It: The Great Rebuild

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The Speed of Computers Since the Early Days of AI

The speed of computers since the early days has increased a thousand trillion times and memory almost as much. The reason we're able to use the computational power that has come into existence is that we develop these new algorithms, for example - convolutional neural networks. If you see an algorithm that looks like it might deliver some value to you, if only it would run fast enough then you invest in the hardware.

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