Too often we’re wasting the most creative people on the planet on the most trivial and ridiculous problems. “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks,†said data scientist Jeffrey Hammerbacher, founder of Cloudera. What else are many of the top AI folks working on? Weapons. Surveillance. Eliminating jobs. Instead of solving world hunger or cleaning up the ocean or curing cancer, they’re working on killing people and getting people to buy crap they don’t really want or need. That doesn’t just suck, that’s a massive humanitarian disaster. Sure, the absolute best of the best…
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