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• The book's title comes from Artificial General Intelligence, the theory that AI may one day match or surpass humans across a wide range of capabilities.
• While Roose concludes that no technology can equal the human brain, he writes that AI systems now boast capabilities that vastly surpass those of their predecessors, leaving society "barreling, inexorably, toward an uncertain future" Here are the funniest, most bizarre, and just plain weird moments from the book.
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