Is the Earth really round?

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Well... Is it?

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OK, so it was a silly question... And no one else seems to have any questions for this forum.

Oh well, no problem... Here are a few brief answers to some real questions:

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

by Stephen Hawking

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I just bought the Kindle version of the book.

Having downloaded the free, I had just read the index when realized that I needed to know what Stephen Hawking's take on Artificial Intelligence (or AI) was. (So out went the sample and in came the full version of the book...)

Since Stephen's passing away, there have been some quite dramatic advancements in machine learning and AI.

At the moment, it is all the rage.

But Stephen Hawking has a few words of caution... and I quote from the book:

"It’s tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction, but this would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake ever."

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Well, let's not go down the same road that we have with our cellphones - where they are starting to rule our lives.

We need to make sure that what we create serves us - not the other way around...