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"Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother."
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Yuval Noah Harari"[I]ts completely different from the human mind. The whole question of "when will AI reach the same level... as human intelligence?" This is ridiculous. Its like asking, "When will airplanes finally be like birds?" They will never, ever be like birds.., and they can do many... things that birds cant. ...AIs and humans ...are not on the same trajectory behind us. They are on a completely different trajectory, for better or for worse."
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first bestselling book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) is based on his lectures to an undergraduate world history class. His other works include the bestsellers Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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