"Yup. Just because someone's a Nobel Laureate"
It's also worth pointing out that using technology is not the same as the cohort of people that spend their whole lives building and working with technology and dreaming about where the technology can go.
"It is reasonable to suppose that AI’s biggest impact will come from automating some tasks and making some workers in some occupations more productive."
This person needs the Ghost of AI present and future to come show him a bit more of this tech first-hand (try out Google Flow and try to make a statement like the one above, you won't be able to).
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And oddly, this was just recommended to me on Youtube:
The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) | TED