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Katie Taylor gets her own 20 punt note*

*Sort of.

YESTERDAY, OLYMPIC BOXING silver medallist John Joe Nevin replaced James Joyce as the face on the local tourist currency of Mullingar - so it’s only fair that Olympic gold medallist Katie Taylor has her face on a note (sort of).

An Punt Nua was sufficiently inspired by the ‘Gar’ note yesterday that it has released an image of Katie Taylor adorning a twenty punt note.

Notwithstanding the fact this isn’t legal currency, we like how this note takes its colour inspiration from the Irish flag, and features Taylor celebrating her win – and landing a left hook on her opponent in last week’s final, Sofya Ochigava.

(An Punt Nua/Twitter)

Thousands of people turned out to welcome Taylor home to Bray yesterday.

She arrived in an open top bus, and was seen telling master of ceremonies Des Cahill that the response was “unbelieveable”.

Read: John Joe replaces Joyce on Mullingar’s local currency>

Read: Katie’s tears: ‘Unbelievable’ Bray homecoming overwhelms Olympic star>

Read: In pictures: Ireland’s Olympic heroes welcomed home from London>

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    Mar 11th 2016, 10:52 AM

    Wouldn’t be worried about AI taking over. They have no reason to. All our fears are human related. It is what we would do with that intelligence. AI is different. The deadly sins of pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth that is behind humanity at its worst would not apply to AI i don’t think. I can’t see AI having the ambition to be rich. It wont have a fear of foreigners. It won’t believe in some god in heaven. If AI gets to the stage of self awareness then i believe it will be intelligent enough to not make the same mistakes as man.

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    Mar 11th 2016, 11:33 AM

    Stephen Hawking thinks AI could end mankind.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540

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    Mar 11th 2016, 4:45 PM

    I suggest you have a read of this. It is very (very) long but it is a good insight. http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

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    Mar 11th 2016, 10:32 AM

    Zerg Rush. Sorted.

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    Mar 11th 2016, 11:25 AM

    I just watched the two hour video of two nerds playing video games.
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    Mar 11th 2016, 11:25 AM

    The fear is when the AI gets so far as to convert to Islam

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    Mar 11th 2016, 11:59 AM

    Yer missing the meaning of the ‘I’ part of AI…

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    Mar 11th 2016, 11:04 AM

    Get it to predict our next government. That’d stump it.

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    Mar 11th 2016, 11:25 PM

    How about a nice game of chess!

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    Mar 11th 2016, 5:27 PM

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