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Is a Sentient and Conscious AI, The Greatest Threat Ever To Humanity?
Has technology finally become a Frankenstein’s monster?
The evolution of artificial intelligence must be the one of the biggest highlights of the last two decades.
It has made the quality of our lives appreciably better in ways that we cannot fully articulate.
An interesting case in point is Angelina Jolie.
The Hollywood actress took a genetic profiling test and found out that she carried a dangerous mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which gave her an eighty-seven per-cent likelihood of developing breast cancer, she made the all important decision of undergoing a double mastectomy.
Today, In nearly every home across the world, you have the Amazon Alexa, a virtual assistant technology:
It is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, sports, and other real-time information, such as news. Alexa can also control several smart devices using itself as a home automation system. Users are able to extend the Alexa capabilities by installing “skills” (additional functionality developed by third-party vendors, in other settings more commonly called apps) such as weather programs and audio features. It uses…