The Data Insider

We are not "there" yet! What we currently call AI is nothing of the sort and limited to very specific applications. And still, this is already enough to start a new technology revolution as Kai Fu Lee explains. THE TERM'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" was coined in 1956, at a historic conference at Dartmouth, but it has been only in the past 10 years, for the most part, that we've seen the first truly substantive glimpses of its power and application. A.I., as it's now universally called, is the pursuit of performing tasks usually reserved for human cognition: recognizing patterns, predicting outcomes clouded by uncertainty, and making complex decisions.