Tsukudu Speaks

When I was young there was this cartoon show I used to watch, probably Teen Titans or so, where one of the main characters created a machine that could solve the world's problems and it worked very well. The machine could independently determine if something was a threat or not and therefore appropriately eliminate it. The machine however, worked so well that it concluded that the biggest threat to the world was humans themselves and like a cleaner who realises the main cause of filth is their employer, it set out to create a pathogen that would wipe out the entire human race because humans were the cause of wars that destroyed the environment, the cause of greed that led to world inequality and ultimately all human suffering.  Now I don't seek to discredit the advancements we've made in the field of machine learning in this article. But am I too much of a township bumpkin when I say; too much too soon? It's impressive how we went from clamouring and scrambling to defea...