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 Tom Chatfield From the games program AlphaGo to the movie 2001, we are often warned of the threats posed by computers.
 But there is a way to live alongside technology Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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 Tom Chatfield From the games program AlphaGo to the movie 2001, we are often warned of the threats posed by computers.
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 Where will the machines claim their next victory: putting you out of a job; solving the mysteries of science; bettering human abilities in the bedroom?
 AlphaGo’s success was down to artificial intelligence (AI): the computer program taught itself how to improve its game by playing millions of matches against itself.
 But the trouble with using games such as chess and Go as measures of technological progress is that they are competitions.
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 The results closely map the degree of intimacy involved.
 Artificial intelligence is OK at a distance.
 Up close and personal, however, the lack of a human face counts more and more.
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