So what's new in AI? – Towards Data Science

When I woke up this morning and checked my daily news feed of AI stories on Flipboard, I felt I should go back to sleep. It was clear that the world as we know it was about to end. In about a third of my personalised news articles the AI headlines screamed loud and clear. And when such brilliant minds as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk say, and I quote, 'the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race' and'artificial Intelligence is our biggest existential threat' then who I am to argue. And when the prestigious McKinsey management consultancy that has the ear of the world's leading CEOs, states commandingly'we estimate that about half of all the activities people are paid to do in the world's workforce could potentially be automated' then it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume we are all doomed.