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Vernon Vinge popularised the notion of the singularity, the point at which an AI-powered computer or robot becomes capable of redesigning and improving itself or of designing AI more advanced than itself. Inevitably, it is argued, this will lead to AI that far exceeds human intelligence, understanding, and control, and to what Vinge describes as the end of the human era. More recently, Stephen Hawking and other leading scientists including Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, and Frank Wilczek have also warned us about the potential downsides of AI becoming too clever. This worrying idea has fed Hollywood films for decades, from 2001: A Space Odyssey in the 60s, the Terminator series of the 80s, and the more recent Transcendence – all of which depict one version or another of a dystopian world dominated by out-of-control AI. We take an optimistic stance that AI has a major role to play in helping us prepare for the new roles that the economy will create – a topic we return to later in this paper.



[Luckin, R., Holmes, W., Griffiths , M & Forcier, L.B. 2016. Intelligence unleashed – an argument for AI in education.

Question: The word ‘utopian’ would be an appropriate _____ for the word ‘dystopian’.


synonym


simile


acronym


metaphor

Answer 1

The word ‘utopian’ would be an appropriate synonym for the word ‘dystopian.’