Pedro Domingos explains to Shane Parrish why he rejects technological singularity predictions of infinite runaway artificial intelligence.
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“And I think they will be in the case of AI, but I don't think we're going to see this, you know, infinite growth that, you know, goes completely beyond you know, what humans can imagine.”
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