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The problem with artificial intelligence, said famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, is that people don’t realize how long they’ve been using technologies that are, essentially, AI. But really AI is something that’s been around for a while, from Google Maps to Siri, he pointed out.
“I think once you become accustomed to something, you no longer think of it as AI.
It’s a computer figuring stuff out that a human being might have done and would have taken longer.
Tyson pointed out that computers and AI have been doing the tasks of humans for some time now.
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