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A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.
Ray Kurzweil
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Ray Kurzweil
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 12
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