Artificial intelligence: Nirvana or apocalypse?

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Artificial intelligence’s march of progress

Without doubt, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems have scored numerous remarkable successes over the past few years:

Defeating the reigning world chess champion. Defeating two champion contestants on the American quiz show Jeopardy. Defeating the world’s best human Go player. Defeating all other entries in the 2020 Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competition, a development described by German biologist Andrei Lupas as “This will change medicine. It will change research. It will change bioengineering. It will change everything.” Demonstrating a weather prediction system that

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