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Let's talk for a moment about how Hollywood sees robots as machines operating autonomously

using artificial intelligence, also known as AI.

And in the movies, these AI running machines are usually human-like,

usually also either very good like R2D2 in Star Wars or very, very evil like Schwarzenegger

in the Terminator.

And you might say that that is a false dichotomy, that it's a Hollywood thing.

But in fact, the potential for artificial intelligence to make the world either a very much better

or a very much worse place for people is at the center of some pretty furious discussion

taking place in places like the Silicon Valley, where companies like Google and Facebook and Apple

are investing massively in AI technology these days, such that the technology is bound to continue

to touch our lives even more than it is already.

And the question is is that a good thing or is it a bad thing?

Is it even a real thing?

All of which sounds like the makings for a debate.

So let's have it.

Yes or no to this motion.

Don't trust the promise of artificial intelligence.

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