Has machine intelligence overtaken human intelligence, or will it do so shortly? Phil and Stephen examine recent news stories that may provide some answers.

Insurance Companies Are Now Offering Discounts if You Let Your Tesla Drive Itself

Britain’s largest automobile insurance company, Direct Line, has announced a 5 percent discount for customers who activate Autopilot functionality in their Tesla. It follows in the footsteps of Root, a startup that offers a similar promotion across nine states in the US.

DeepMind AI needs mere 4 hours of self-training to become a chess overlord

 Evolved now to AlphaZero, this latest iteration started from scratch and bested the program that beat the human Go champions after just eight hours of self-training. And when AlphaZero instead decided to teach itself chess, the AI defeated the current world-champion chess program, Stockfish, after a mere four hours of self-training. (For fun, AlphaZero also took two hours to learn shogi—"a Japanese version of chess that’s played on a bigger board," according to The Verge—and then defeated one of the best bots around.)

AI will obliterate half of all jobs, starting with white collar, says ex-Google China president

Everyone needs to rethink the practical and social impact of fewer jobs in the future, Kai-Fu Lee says.

The chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures believes about half of all jobs will disappear over the next decade.

True Artificial Intelligence will change everything

Eventually AIs will set their own goals and become much smarter than we are

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