Big Data. Gates and the others who were pushing climate change and population control. Now they realize that computers are going to need more and more energy, so bye-bye climate change.
Consider too: decades of factories and other business fleeing to places with lower labor costs. Machines don’t get wages or salaries and don’t need health insurance. Why wouldn’t they get all the jobs and eventually take over?
Before we get too bent out of shape, consider the upside: AI will be a lot easier to understand and communicate with over the phone than the usual subcontinental Indians.
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Concrete uses so far
To track everyone
To lay off workers