overtake mankind
Machine Of Human Dreams explores how AI could overtake mankind
In the film, Goertzel emerges as part visionary, part mountebank. He can always attract partners and excite investors but he struggles to hit deadlines. A company he set up in New York "pissed away" 20 million (as his former business partner puts it.) There is an excruciating scene in the documentary in which he and his colleagues demonstrate their A.I. "child" robots to their Chinese investors in Hong Kong. The robots let them down.