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Perhaps, but [url=https://www.sciencealert.com/google-is-improving-its-artificial-intelligence-with-artificial-intelligence]this announcement[/url] and [url=https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/]this article[/url] might be evidence that he's not exaggerating.
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Futurists enjoy being very vocal about such things, and it's true that technology is growing rapidly. But every time I've thought the way you are, I've always found something to make me think 'oh, not a big deal.' In fact, forever futurists have been claiming they would soon be able to hook your brain up to a computer. Yet a study last year in China had someone's thoughts being scanned, and it took 40 minutes to download 1% of one thought. And the average human thinks 30-50 thousand thoughts a day, sending us back decades in where we thought we were. 

I agree with you, this is something to take note of. But at the same time, we won't be seeing surrogate robots in 5 years.