Google and AI

In the CACM:  Google's Eric Schmidt downplays fear over AI.  " ... He also says machine learning has the potential to help solve every problem. "I can't think of a field of study, a field of research — whether it's English, soft sciences, hard sciences, or any corporation — that can't become far more efficient, far more powerful, far more clever," Schmidt said. "I think that this technology will ultimately be one of the greatest forces for good in mankind's history simply because it makes people smarter." ...