Smart phone: A couple take a selfie beneath cherry blossoms on Yeouido island in Seoul. The smartphone is today the ‘one device to rule them all’. — AFP
THERE has been so much hype about AI that rock star historian turned futurist Yuval Noah Harari thinks that man (homo sapiens) will evolve into homo deus – almost god-like through technology and science conquering famine, war and possibly even death (Vintage Books, 2015).
We used to suspend belief through science fiction, until large parts of the gadgets that we watched in Star Trek in the 1960s have all become reality. With the ability of computers to beat the best human Go champion, science fiction is becoming reality. The computer AlphaGo can not only learn from humans, but play and learn from games against itself. The machines are getting smarter than all of us.
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