Technology versus Humanity

“In an intelligence explosion—where the smarter a machine gets, the quicker it’s able to increase its own intelligence, until it begins to soar upwards—a machine might take years to rise from the chimp step to the one above it, but perhaps only hours to jump up a step once it’s on the dark green step two above us, and by the time it’s ten steps above us, it might be jumping up in four-step leaps every second that goes by.”

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 2 - Wait But Why
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html
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