Yuval Noah Harari at Big Think:
There is so much hype around AI, especially in the market. If you want to sell something to people today, you call it AI. Not every automatic machine is an AI. What makes AI AI is that it is able to learn and change by itself and come up with decisions and ideas that we don’t anticipate, can’t anticipate.
The acronym, AI, it’s more accurate to think about it as an acronym for alien intelligence. With every passing year, AI is becoming less and less artificial and more and more alien in the sense that we can’t predict what kind of new stories and ideas and strategies it will come up with. It thinks, it behaves in a fundamentally alien way. This is AI and this is not just theory, it’s also we are seeing it all around us. I’m Yuval Noah Harari. I’m a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of “Nexus: A History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI”.
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