Hollywood loves to give us stories of super-intelligent robots running wild with their orders. And we love to watch these stories. If artificial intelligence (AI) worked like it does in the popular imagination, a robot who was asked to dry up some spilled water not stop until all the world's oceans were dried up.
And, for once, some of what it can do looks genuinely useful.
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Elon Musk frequently highlights the risks associated with artificial intelligence, emphasizing its potential threat to humanity's existence.
I doubt they will when they'd have to be programmed by us – a flawed species, to say the least.