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by eisvogel 3670 days ago
Oh look, in the second sentence of the second paragraph, the author of that article misused the word "word" for "world" (champion). The spell check didn't flag it. The grammar check probably didn't care either. Many people would read though that and not even see it, but interpret the intended semantic. I wonder if, when the Deep Mind team is building its learning-proof killswitch cage, they will accidentally mistype the name of some privilege guarding boolean. The compiler wouldn't flag it. The linker wouldn't care. The resulting executable would only have to be active for a few milliseconds, and humanity falls.