Google on Artificial-Intelligence Panic: Get a Grip - Digits - WSJ

An AI reality check from Google DeepMind; also see Get Ready for the Rise of the Machines (BloombergBusiness)

"“Whether it’s Terminator coming to blow us up or mad scientists looking to create quite perverted women robots, this narrative has somehow managed to dominate the entire landscape, which we find really quite remarkable,” said Mustafa Suleyman, the head of applied AI at Google DeepMind, the London-based AI company he co-founded and which Google bought last year for about $400 million.

“The narrative has shifted from ‘Isn’t it terrible that AI has been such a failure?’ to ‘Isn’t it terrible that AI has been such a success?’ ” he said."

Google on Artificial-Intelligence Panic: Get a Grip - Digits - WSJ