From Adrian Ellis
Martin Rees says that biological brains will eventually be superceded by superior machine intelligences (1 August, p 22). His remarks follows recent comments by Stephen Hawking and others, calling attention to the supposed dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.
These assertions all surprise me. The machine intelligence we currently see is more superficial than artificial. How do Hawking and Rees think these automated sorters and calculators will reach such lofty goals?
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