Artificial Intelligence: Don't Fear It, Embrace It - InformationWeek

Adam Coates, director of Baidu Research's Silicon Valley AI Lab, isn't worried about artificial intelligence taking over the world. "I will tell you why I am not actually afraid of AI right now," he said at the InformationWeek Elite 100 Conference in the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 3. "I don't go around seeing every Camero on the street thinking that's a Transformer. I know what's under the hood. It's self-evident the technology is just not capable of doing something like that today." Not everyone in the audience was entirely convinced there's no need for fear.