Developer sees human benefits from growth of AI

SAN FRANCISCO - Artificial intelligence will not pose a threat to human jobs - instead, it will make people better, says a developer of an AI robot that defeated some of the best poker players.

Tuomas Sandholm, who is also a professor of computer science at the US Carnegie Mellon University, says a lot of applications involving AI have close links with the lives of ordinary people.

He spoke on the sidelines of the 2018 Connect Conference earlier this month, which is a forum on academic exchanges on AI between Chinese and US enterprises and startups.