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Could we encounter the Terminator in real life?

The sci-fi film series imagined a future in which robots become sentient and wage war with humankind. How likely is this?

From Google to neural networks to the Game of Life – Hannah Fry looks at the ideas and theories that explain how computers may become sentient in the future.

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