This need for specialization, the constrained bandwidth of our ability to communicate, our limited memory capacity and processing power, means even the smartest of minds is approaching the limits of human intelligence.

it’s not our powers that make us. It’s the direction in which we aim them that carves our path through the future.

The discovery of deep learning as a way to teach machines intelligence set us on a path, the destiny of which is pretty much determined. Three inevitables await us: 1. AI will happen, there is no stopping it. 2. The machines will become smarter than humans, sooner rather than later. 3. Mistakes will happen. Bad things will happen.

Margaret Mead, the renowned American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, famously said: ‘Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.’

Singularity is the moment beyond which we can no longer see, we can no longer forecast. It is the moment beyond which we cannot predict how AI will behave because our current perception and trajectories will no longer apply.

The underlying principle in our relationship with the machines is our desire to control them. This will surely lead them to mistrust us. We are starting with mistrust and our actions reflect that position.

Every computer that we invented prior to AI was just an extension of our own intelligence.

Ethics represent the lens through which our intelligence is applied to inform our actions and decisions.

This next wave of technology is able to, even encouraged to, think on its own, to pick between choices and make decisions. It is encouraged to learn and be smarter.