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I don’t believe this potential of superior AI is being overlooked by
the nations of the world. It’s quite possible that the next Manhat-
tan Project undertaken by (hopefully) this country will be for cre-
ating superior AI.
We as a race will take no comfort in appearing as intelligent as a
chimpanzee to a machine. Science fiction writers have long writ-
ten on competent AI machines running amok: for instance, the
computer HAL in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001, Colossus the Corbin
Project, and the main computer in Terminator I and Terminator
II. So to all the future AI programmers out there reading this book,
I have an important message: “Don’t forget that off switch!”

Biotechnology
Advances in biotechnology will soon allow us to alter our own genet-
ics. With this power it becomes possible to enhance our brain to
increase our own intelligence. While possible, it opens up the
human race to unforeseeable repercussions of gene altering in
subsequent generations that may be catastrophic. This makes
generating superior intelligence in machines much safer, at least
for the time being.
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Neural networks—hype versus reality

Neural networks have been overhyped since their inception. So it’s
easy to dismiss my remarks concerning AI, AL, and neural net-
works as just more of the same, as people have been doing for
years. And it is true that people have predicted the emergence of
humanlike intelligence in machines.
If progress continues as rapidly as it has in the past 50 years, I
believe human levels of intelligence in machines will be achieved
within 50 years.

What are neural networks?
I have discussed neural networks without defining them. Here is
their definition. Neural networks are artificial systems (hardware
and software) that function and learn based upon models derived
from studying the biological systems of the human brain. Net-
works may be implemented in either software/operating systems
or hardware. In mimicking the biological systems of the brain,
neural networks have taken strides in building the sensory foun-
dations needed for AI, such as machine vision, voice recognition,
and speech.
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