Artificial Intelligence, a Black Swan of Our Times?

Roman CHIRILĂ  
National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics – ICI Bucharest
8-10 Mareșal Alexandru Averescu Av., 011455, Bucharest, Romania
roman.chirila@ici.ro

Abstract: The present paper presents the latest result of Artificial Intelligence as an amazing behaviour of AlphaGo Zero which learning alone the rules of the game, he became the best Go player in the world. Also the paper describes the main future ideas of two most important prophets in the field: the Google’s expert Ray Kurzweil, and Dieter Zetsche, the general manager of Daimler AG. Comparing the AI features with Taleb’s ideas the final conclusion of the paper is that AI represents an authentic Black Swan of our times.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Black Swan, Taleb, Kurzweil, Zetsche, bitcoin.

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