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Artificially Unintelligent

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20,000 engineers. 20,000 engineers are currently working on a single algorithm to provide you with the most accurate porn results it can find. 20,000 engineers co-operating on organising and compiling the largest depository of knowledge that man has ever created. 20.000 engineers participating in programming one of the most advanced computer systems on the plant. 20,000 engineers creating the first artificial intelligence. Or perhaps they already have, and they are just the guys working for Google. What about the other FAANG companies. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google. What about the still un-profitable Twitter, all of whom have immense armies of programmers, engineers and designers working on similar programs. Worldwide those working specifically on the the creation of artificial intelligence is estimated to be around 300,000 computer engineers. Yet this is still a drop in the bucket to the total amount of computer and telecoms engineers working on the creation and op...