Harvard professor and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker:
"superintelligence" is a meaningless. Computers have beaten humans at specific tasks since the 1950s, and he thinks the hype mostly helps AI companies pump their valuations.
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Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker (@sapinker) on AI's future path. "It will get better. It'll never be omniscient. It'll never be omnipotent. That's out...