Time to get smart about artificial intelligence

The race for dominance in artificial intelligence will be to the 2020s what the space race was to the 1960s, and the competition is gaining on us fast. A dozen nations around the world, ranging from our closest ally, Canada, to our fiercest competitor, China, are pouring billions of dollars into AI research and development. Machines capable of making complex decisions independent from human input will bring economic change on the scale of the industrial revolution. Facebook already uses artificial intelligence to identify your face in newly uploaded photos. Computers can find tumors in medical images with greater accuracy than doctors.