Dr Toby Walsh's disturbing predictions about AI

Artificial intelligence is already transforming the world around us, but one expert predicts terrifying changes on the horizon over the next 30 years. Professor Toby Walsh believes machine learning has the power to radically alter life as we know it by the year 2050. Among the more disturbing prophecies, which could be taken straight from an episode of Black Mirror, is that people will live on as chatbots after they die. AI is already transforming the world around us, but one expert predicts terrifying changes on the horizon over the next 30 years. Dr Walsh's vision for the machine world is outlined in a new book entitled'It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots'.