Demystifying AI: What's Fiction, and What's Worth Fanfare? - ReadWrite

As artificial intelligence drives a fourth industrial revolution, fears and doubts about AI are pervasive. In the first industrial revolution, machines began replacing manual labor, and there were human concerns over the change. At hand today, in the fourth industrial revolution, are rational and irrational fears. With any new radical thinking and ideas, disruption in the status quo and an influx of unknown information -- people have fear. Great idea -- but it was scary because it was unknown.