How AI is changing the world -- and what should come next - Silicon Valley Business Journal

AI, or artificial intelligence, is influencing some fundamental aspects of our lives, from our democracy to employment prospects. It is transforming industries and changing societies. Behavior is being tracked, traced and analyzed -- whether people know it or not -- and some are frustrated by the ever-growing number of chatbots we have to engage with. Like many acronyms, AI is now an all-encompassing marketing phrase that is thrown around, much like 5G. AI is really software running on powerful computers that are programmed to interpret data and act on it intelligently.