The AI Takeover Is Coming. Let’s Embrace It.

deep learning... is the reason we’re on the brink of a more general intelligence... essentially one algorithm (with many minor variants) that can adjust its own structure to solve a problem, directly from whatever massively large data set you feed it...
we’re seeing extremely narrow systems right now is because they’re extremely useful... we are already beginning to see the seed of generality.... By mixing and matching the narrow systems of today, we’ll land on something bigger and broader — and more recognizable as intelligent — tomorrow...
the first time ... a form of true transfer learning has been shown to work for machine translation... neural net had taught itself a rudimentary new skill using indirect information... a sign of what’s to come: an emerging intelligence that can make cognitive leaps based on an incomplete set of examples