A recent feature in the Financial Times magazine about the British spy agency GCHQ revealed to me one especially surprising tidbit: The agency had been inspired to create an Internet surveillance system by the Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepMind, based on an academic paper about an artificial chess grand master.
A GCHQ official said: "The people who did this at DeepMind, they published all the work, it's out there, anybody can access it. So we should make use of it."
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