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TIL in January 2015, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and dozens of artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter on AI, calling for research on the societal impacts and urging researchers not to create something which cannot be controlled.

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PYDQn TIL that the Australian government is passing a bill to give media companies control of YouTube's algorithm #OurYoutube
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xVryB TIL of super recogniser's. They can remember 80% of the faces they have seen, and have been known to outperform computers. Some are employed by the British intelligence/police. Two of them was used to identify the suspects in the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in 2018 just by reviewing CCTV
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