Hawking AI speech
May 13, 2015
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.
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