Artificial intelligence – the application and impact of algorithms
Magnus FitchettSapientNitro
In the "Terminator" films, an artificial intelligence (AI) defense network called "Skynet" becomes self-aware and wages war on humans.
At South By Southwest (SXSW) 2015 in Austin, Texas, a group of protesters gathered to warn of just such a future, shouting, "Stop the robots! Stop the robots!"
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The disturbance, it turned out, was a marketing stunt by a dating app called Quiver, which relies on humans rather than software to pair potential matches. But it still made an interesting point. After all, if Professor Stephen...