Artifictional intelligence: against humanity's surrender to computers

Recent startling successes in machine intelligence using a technique called 'deep learning' seem to blur the line between human and machine as never before.

Are computers on the cusp of becoming so intelligent that they will render humans obsolete?

Harry Collins argues we are getting ahead of ourselves, caught up in images of a fantastical future dreamt up in fictional portrayals.

The greater present danger is that we lose sight of the very real limitations of artificial intelligence and readily enslave ourselves to stupid computers: the 'Surrender'.