‘Soft’ Artificial Intelligence Is Suddenly Everywhere

It’s hard to tell where data science stops and AI starts.

"It will enliven inert objects, much as electricity did more than a century ago. Everything that we formerly electrified we will now cognitize. This new utilitarian AI will also augment us individually as people (deepening our memory, speeding our recognition) and collectively as a species. There is almost nothing we can think of that cannot be made new, different, or interesting by infusing it with some extra IQ… Like all utilities, AI will be supremely boring, even as it transforms the Internet, the global economy, and civilization."

By
Irving Wladawsky-Berger

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