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Their wordsThe rapid emergence of sophisticated models of artificial intelligence has enormous implications for the future of the human race.
Their wordsWhile it has turned out to be more difficult to build robots which can maneuver around the physical world with dexterity than to build chatbots that can perform high-level cognitive tasks, there will come a time in the relatively near future in which machines capable of doing both tasks simultaneously will be produced in large numbers.
Their wordsIntellectually, I have become deeply convinced that the importance of AI is, if anything, underhyped.
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