Why making human-like artificial intelligence may be 'a trap': AI expert

As companies such as Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) tussle to make the best artificial intelligence technology, one expert questioned whether they are going about it in the right way. "Alan Turing famously proposed that the test for intelligence, what we later called the Turing Test, was'how similar can an AI be to a human?' Trying to mimic humans has been kind of a goal of a lot of computer scientists ever since," Stanford Digital Economy Lab Director Erik Brynjolfsson said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). "Can we fool humans so you can't tell the difference?" he continued. "I think it's a very evocative goal, but it's also a trap. The reason it's a trap is that if we make AI that mimics humans, it actually destroys the value of human labor and it leads to more concentration of wealth and power."