Peter Thiel Once Explained Why His Intuition On AI Defies Mainstream Thinking: 'Worse For The Math People Than The Word People'

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Venture capitalist Peter Thiel once said that advances in artificial intelligence could disrupt society's elite hierarchy in unexpected ways, weakening math-driven credentials more than writing-based ...

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