Is AI really capable of outsmarting us and taking over the world? “OK! Well, your question makes no sense,” Lanier says in his gentle sing song voice. “Youve just used the set of terms that to me are fictions. Im sorry to respond that way, but its ridiculous … its unreal.” This is the stuff of sci fi movies such as The Matrix and Terminator, he says. Lanier doesnt even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that it is actually intelligent, and that we could be in...
