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AlphaGo’s easy wins raise concerns about AI
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news...id=3016106

EXCERPT: Could rapid advances in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) threaten the human race? The two stinging victories of AlphaGo, a Go-playing artificial intelligence algorithm, over Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol have shocked and worried many. People who were marginally curious about the historic man-versus-machine match suddenly became aware that advances in artificial intelligence are quickening - and wondering what that might mean....



People will follow a robot in an emergency – even if it’s wrong
https://www.newscientist.com/article/207...its-wrong/

EXCERPT: . . . “We were surprised,” says Paul Robinette, the graduate student who led the study. “We thought that there wouldn’t be enough trust, and that we’d have to do something to prove the robot was trustworthy....