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'There is no doubt that AI may one day become much more intelligent than humans' Really?

"no doubt" and "may" are two words that contradict one another. Clearly whoever wrote that has no idea what they are talking about.

I disagree. They've constructed a sentence that will always be true by using the weasel word "may" and the emphatic "no doubt."

I have no doubt that one day someone may win big at poker in a casino. Someone may; or they may not - of this I have no doubt.

Technically the sentence could be falsified if we ever managed to formally prove that AI can never become more intelligent than humans.

No they have not.