How Artificial Intelligence Is Powering Everyday Tasks

To fans of science fiction, artificial intelligence may remind them of robots like C-3PO, the loquacious but harmless golden droid in Star Wars, or Skynet in the Terminator movies, a calculating sentient computer that subjugated mankind. But AI is more than just a machine with human-level intelligence scientists hope they could one day create. It is a set of algorithms and technologies that is already powering many tasks in everyday life. Get our free ebook on how the Soviet Union became Putin's Russia. Chatbots that converse with you in Yahoo, Facebook and other sites use AI.