Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capacity to create new businesses, make our lives safer, and add massive growth to the global economy. But it could also have the ability to take away many of our jobs or even bring about autonomous warfare.
Noted physicist Stephen Hawking told a crowd at the Web Summit technology conference in Portugal last year that, “Success in creating effective AI, could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or, the worst. We just don’t know. So we cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI, or ignored by it and side-lined, or conceivably destroyed by it.”
With all of the good (and potentially bad) outcomes for AI, it’s worth a little time to understand what AI actually is, what the benefits and drawbacks could be, and which companies are making the biggest waves in the space.
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