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Paul Krugman for The New York Times:
Ah, you ask, but what about the people? Very good question. Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but also reduce the demand for people — including smart people. So we could be looking at a society that grows ever richer, but in which all the gains in wealth accrue to whoever owns the robots.
The more things change…
Well, except:
And then eventually Skynet decides to kill us all, but that’s another story.
John Markoff for The New York Times:
But what is new in recent months is the growing speed and accuracy of deep-learning programs, often called artificial neural networks or just “neural nets” for their resemblance to the neural connections in the brain.
One word: Skynet.
