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To them, everything is reduced to computation: the brain is a computer; climate change is a technological problem. But none of that is true, and we’re setting ourselves up for chaos if we keep believing these men who assert tech will save us from the crises we face.

Artificial intelligence tends to get a bad rap in popular culture: as cyborg assassins in Terminator, or operating systems, like Samantha in Her, that lure us into unwitting love. So why do we need a general form of AI at all? "I think we're going to need artificial assistance to make the breakthroughs that society wants," Hassabis says. "Climate, economics, disease -- they're just tremendously complicated interacting systems. It's just hard for humans to analyse all that data and make sense of it. And we might have to confront the possibility that there's a limit to what human experts might understand. AI-assisted science will help the discovery process."
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