[Mick]

It is exciting and wonderful but also a little bit scary. Aside from the "Skynet" (the sentient AI that declares war on mankind from the Terminator movies) type of sci-fi scenarios that may be unlikely (though worth taking caution against), I'm also very concerned about how much power can be created and concentrated from this technology. Unlike Skynet, a massive concentration of wealth and power, and the ability to impact humans in ways many people won't be able to grasp, is a very possible outcome of AI. From the Lord of the Rings, I call AI "the one technology to rule them all."  Deep Mind's breakthrough in protein folding gives an early example of how and why whoever has the best AI may end up having the best technology in many fields.

It's just a little thing, but a friend of mine spent a year devising an AI approach to horse race handicapping and is doing very, very well.

[Mick]

It is exciting and wonderful but also a little bit scary. Aside from the "Skynet" (the sentient AI that declares war on mankind from the Terminator movies) type of sci-fi scenarios that may be unlikely (though worth taking caution against), I'm also very concerned about how much power can be created and concentrated from this technology. Unlike Skynet, a massive concentration of wealth and power, and the ability to impact humans in ways many people won't be able to grasp, is a very possible outcome of AI. From the Lord of the Rings, I call AI "the one technology to rule them all."  Deep Mind's breakthrough in protein folding gives an early example of how and why whoever has the best AI may end up having the best technology in many fields.

It's just a little thing, but a friend of mine spent a year devising an AI approach to horse race handicapping and is doing very, very well.