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A Columbia roboticist wants to build a self-aware machine. @johnpavlus interviews Hod Lipson for @QuantaMagazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/hod-lipson-is-building-self-aware-robots-20190711/ #AI #consciousness #science

This is a disaster we'll be teaching for decades in b-school. The idolatry of innovators leads to billion-dollar payouts while thousands of employees are scrambling to clean up the mess, knowing they have a 1 in 2 chance of being fired. https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-11571746483?mod=e2tw