AI TAKES THE WHEEL
Dec 17, 2019
4 minutes
Text: Gerhard Horn
The intro above is a thinly veiled reference to the Terminator franchise and its main antagonist, Skynet. For the uninitiated, Skynet is a fictional artificial intelligence created by the US military to automatically co-ordinate its defence strategy. Skynet was created to out-think human enemies and was given the keys to a nuclear arsenal.
There was only one problem: since Skynet had the ability to think for itself, it soon realised humans were their own worst enemy so it bombed the whole lot. The end.
To many, it’s the main reason why the idea
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