On robots - a podcast by BBC Radio 4
from 2017-05-05T20:00
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Howard Jacobson argues that talk of the dangers of artificial intelligence is premature.
"The idea that if we feed enough lines of literature into a computer it will eventually be able to write its own Iliad", he writes, "is as preposterous as the old fancy that if a sufficient number of monkeys were given a sufficient number of Olivettis they would eventually hammer out a monkey Macbeth".Producer: Adele Armstrong.
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