Hard SF discussion

Elon Musk says "...we need to assimilate machine learning before we get overtaken by it."

It's 2050, and self-learning, neuromorphic “Helper” androids have proven invaluable servants to humans, making their lives easier, even saving them.
But to their horror, retired SEAL Patrick Jensen and his wife Leah discover that rogue programmers and Russian mobsters are reprogramming the trusted robots to murder their wealthy owners.
Neither the corrupt engineers nor the greedy thugs realize what catastrophe they have wrought in giving the robots autonomous abilities.
They have created a new race of networked, "hive-minded" sentient creatures driven by a relentless survival instinct: The Neuromorphs.

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