The AI Coming Wave

Mr Suleyman, one of the founders of Deepmind (now part of Google) argues AI will change anything:

• it will reduce the price of achieving any goal. If the printing press allowed ordinary people to own books, and the silicon chip put a computer in every home, AI will democratise simply doing things.
• it will accelerate biotech development in combination with technologies like Crispr. Organisms will soon be designed with the precision and scale of today’s computer chips & software.

Unfortunately, it also means engineering a run on a bank, or creating a deadly virus using a DNA synthesiser.