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Nissan and other vehicle manufacturers are currently developing driverless cars that may eventually make up the majority of vehicles on our roads.

so, but the field of AI has advanced rapidly in the last decade due to increased computing power and more funding for AI research. AI already plays a major role in our society, but scientists predict a future in which AI-enabled computers and machines do more and more without human oversight so that we have more free time to pursue intellectual interests or simply enjoy our lives. “Machines will perform the tasks that we don’t want to: the mundane jobs, the dangerous jobs,” says Dr. Stephen Cave, Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. “And they’ll do the tasks we aren’t capable of—those involving too much data for a human to process, or where the machine is simply faster, better, cheaper.” It is easy to underestimate the effect that AI will have on modern life over the next decade or two. Its use will change the way we work, the way we live our private lives, the way militaries fight wars, and the way in which many other processes and systems have operated for decades. The use of AI will have

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