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Hawking AI speech

Published:
May 13, 2015
Author:
Max Tegmark

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Stephen Hawking, who serves on our FLI Scientific Advisory Board, just gave an inspiring and thought-provoking talk that I think of as “A Brief History of Intelligence”. He spoke of the opportunities and challenges related to future artificial intelligence at a Google’s conference outside London, and you can watch it here.

This content was first published at futureoflife.org on May 13, 2015.

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