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A lot of banter, summary of sci movies
The title looked good, so did the cover. Some of the reviewers are impressive. I work in large IT systems, AI, Robotics and devices. I found this book to be too much 'What if this happened...' Watch the movies iRobot, Transformers, Terminator, and 1984. Then summarize the movies and you have this book. The books point is we have to watch out for the time (now?) when humans create an intelligent system that dwarfs us and takes over. I didn't read anything new that most sci-fi movies haven't covered related to technology ethics. However, the way this is written there is so much what if and speculation, that reading it becomes tiresome. Sorry, didn't enjoy the book.
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