Trendwatch: Beneficial Intelligence

This short article looks at beneficial intelligence, a variation of artificial intelligence, which responds to a consumer desire for smart machines that can make their lives better by addressing their basic needs.

Trendwatch: Beneficial Intelligence

Vicki LoomesTrendwatching.com

Artificial intelligence was much in the news in 2015. Back in August, no less formidable a trio than Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk warned that AI may pose a greater existential threat to humankind than climate change or nuclear weapons. The general thinking is that one day we may create a computer that is many times more intelligent than any human being, and then discover that this super-intelligence has ideas of its own – from wrecking the global economy to intentionally meddling with our TV reception so that we miss the most...

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