NextGov: Artificial intelligence, sometimes just called AI, has been at the forefront of a lot of people’s minds for some time now. Many of us have probably seen a few snippets of what AI can do, whether it’s IBM’s Watson helping to analyze our taxes, a self-driving vehicle (hopefully) safely passing us on the road, our favorite video games getting a lot smarter, or our phones “helpfully” offering us ads for services that it knows we will like.
Despite AI touching more of our lives, it’s still a technology that’s under development in a lot of ways. And quite a few very smart people feel it may be the end of us all. The most recent season of “The X-Files” tapped into a bit of that paranoia in an episode called Rm9sbG93ZXJz, which translates to “followers” in Base64, where an army of intelligent robots try to force Mulder and Scully to leave a tip for bad sushi.
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