Reasonably Optimistic
How AI went from fringe idea to unstoppable force
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Artificial intelligence can feel as though it arrived overnight. But today’s AI boom grew out of a vision championed by a small group of researchers who believed machines could one day rival human intelligence. That once far-fetched idea has become a global race that no one seems to know how to stop.
Host Megan McArdle talks with Kevin Roose, author of "The AGI Chronicles," about the unusual…