Machines that can think: real benefits, the Apocalypse, or 'dog-spaghetti'?
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Stephen Hawking thought that artificial intelligence could spell the end of humanity. But Roger Melko of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics thinks that maybe, just maybe, we're on the cusp of a wonderfully transformative age.
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