Artificial Intelligence, between hopes and fears for Humankind - Hello Future

Some worry about the emergence of job-destroying intelligent robots, or even a conscious AI that would replace humanity. While others see rather a new possibility of progress for humankind. The rapid progress of artificial Intelligence (AI) heralds a new era, one of machines that are capable of learning by themselves ( machine learning) and of mimicking the human brain's network of neurons for what is called deep learning. Admittedly, today, AI is still limited. AI algorithms are very effective for certain specific tasks, but are far from equalling the highly diverse cognitive abilities of a small child.