“If you’re trying to understand AI’s near-term impact, don’t think ‘sentience.’ Instead think ‘automation on steroids.’”
—Andrew Ng, Stanford CS adjunct faculty;
Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain
“AI systems can help develop more powerful ways of thinking, but there’s at most an indirect sense in which those ways of thinking are being used in turn to develop new AI systems.”
— Research Paper by Shan Carter, Google Mind, and Michael Nielsen, YC Research
As automation becomes ...