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“If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.”

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Stuart J. Russell
Stuart J. Russell

Stuart J. Russell is a renowned computer scientist born in 1962. His extensive research and contributions in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in machine learning, knowledge representation, and decision theory, have had a profound impact on the development of the field. more

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