Standage: AI minds will resemble aliens or animals rather than humans
Tom Standage · a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds' · Jan 2, 2019 · at 38:41
Tom Standage, Deputy Editor at The Economist, discusses how people tend to anthropomorphize artificial intelligence during an a16z podcast discussion on AI sci-fi tropes.
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“They are going to be more like aliens or more like animals than they are like humans. I mean, the chances of them being just like humans are very small.”
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