AI Won't End the World, But It Might Take Your Job | WIRED

Excerpt from an accentuate-the-non-apocalyptic-potential AI snapshot

"But Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng—one of the world’s best-known AI researchers and a guy who’s building out what is likely one of the world’s largest applied AI projects—says we really ought to worry more about robot truck drivers than the Terminator.

In fact, he’s irritated by the discussion about scientists somehow building an apocalyptic super-intelligence. “I think it’s a distraction from the conversation about…serious issues,” Ng said at an AI conference in San Francisco last week."

AI Won't End the World, But It Might Take Your Job | WIRED