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b'Has machine intelligence overtaken human intelligence, or will it do so shortly? Phil and Stephen examine recent news stories that may provide some answers.\\n\\nInsurance Companies Are Now Offering Discounts if You Let Your Tesla Drive Itself\\n\\nBritain\\u2019s largest automobile insurance company, Direct Line, has announced a 5 percent discount for customers who activate Autopilot functionality in their Tesla. It follows in the footsteps of Root, a startup that offers a similar promotion across nine states in the US.\\n\\nDeepMind AI needs mere 4 hours of self-training to become a chess overlord\\n\\n\\xa0Evolved now to AlphaZero, this latest iteration started from scratch and bested the program that beat the human Go champions after just eight hours of self-training. And when AlphaZero instead decided to teach itself chess, the AI defeated the current world-champion chess program, Stockfish, after a mere four hours of self-training. (For fun, AlphaZero also took two hours to learn shogi\\u2014"a Japanese version of chess that\\u2019s played on a bigger board," according to The Verge\\u2014and then defeated one of the best bots around.)\\n\\nAI will obliterate half of all jobs, starting with white collar, says ex-Google China president\\n\\nEveryone needs to rethink the practical and social impact of fewer jobs in the future, Kai-Fu Lee says.\\n\\nThe chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures believes about half of all jobs will disappear over the next decade.\\n\\nTrue Artificial Intelligence will change everything\\n\\nEventually AIs will set their own goals and become much smarter than we are\\n\\nWT 381-692'