Will AI soon be as smart as — or smarter than — humans?

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At an Air Force Academy commencement address earlier this month, President Biden issued his most direct warning to date about the power of artificial intelligence, predicting that the technology could “overtake human thinking” in the not-so-distant future.

“It’s not going to be easy,” Biden said, citing a recent Oval Office meeting with “eight leading scientists in the area of AI.”

“We’ve got a lot to deal with,” he continued. “An incredible opportunity, but a lot [to] deal with.”

To any civilian who has toyed around with OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 — or Microsoft’s Bing, or Google’s Bard — the president’s stark forecast probably sounded more like science fiction than actual science.

By Andrew Romano.

Full story at Yahoo News.