Terminator robots are NOT on the horizon, claims Microsoft AI boss

Advances in artificial intelligence have many fearing that we could soon see Terminator-style killer robots. He claims that fear of intelligent robots will cause humanity to lose out on the benefits of robots. Advances in artificial intelligence have many fearing that we could soon see Terminator-style killer robots. 'The danger I see is if we spend too much of our attention focusing on Terminators and Skynet and the end of humanity,' Bishop told the Guardian ahead of a discussion about machine learning at the Royal Society. '[We are] generally just painting a too negative, emotive and one-sided view of artificial intelligence – we may end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater.'