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appears to concede that if superintelligent AI were possible

we can just switch it off. 2 This is often the first thing that pops into a

connecting data to reality. Data alone are hardly a science

and hemispherical Earth riding on turtleback. It was

the Babylonian astronomers were masters of black-box predictions

“More has been learned about causal inference in the

for which causal models have become a second language. These

especially in such data-intensive sciences as sociology and

but they still can’t tie their own shoes.)

robots with anything approaching human capability in a broad range of

but they’re far short of enabling a computerized robot to tidy a room.

where patterns are processed and recognized. These advances

one of the pioneers of modern neuroscience

increasingly sensitive instrumentation and

our understanding of the architecture of the brain

the exponential advances in Moore’s Law are

the ability to recognize that a circle is

such deep-learning techniques have finally exhibited

worried that this superintelligence would prove to be malign and regarded it as

the idea of technological advance leading to