Master Of The Game

What happens when the technology that humans have created begins to manipulate them? We are on the brink of finding out.

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UNTIL NOW IT HAS been the stuff of science fiction, movies and nightmares. With the startling advances in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past two-three years, could we soon reach a stage where we would be deftly manipulated by the technology we created? The answer is, almost certainly, yes.

After outsmarting humans on so many fronts and starting to master the domains that humans believed were theirs alone (such as creativity), smart machines are likely to rule in the near future. But it is quite frightening when humans fall prey to scheming robots.