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The artificial-intelligence revolution is here: Self-driving cars are a reality, war is being outsourced to robots, and surgery will be performed by autonomous machines – and this is only the beginning.
Revolutionary algorithms now let robots mimic the human brain. They can diagnose disease, drive cars and fly planes. But as computers leap forward, are we on the verge of creating a new life-form – or something much darker?
