The Virtuous Disruptor: How AI Will Transform Knowledge Sharing and Publishing By 2025

Nearly 600 years after Chinese monks advanced the spread of knowledge with block printing, there was the Gutenberg Press, changing the dissemination of knowledge forever. And now, nearly 600 years later, Artificial Intelligence is poised to do the same. For many, Artificial Intelligence is clouded in mystery, and bound to big screen killer bots that ultimately decide that humans must be terminated. From HAL 9000, to Skynet, to I, Robot, and back to Skynet again, AI has been popularly framed in how it can hurt humanity, rather than how it can help. Artificial Intelligence aims to train machines to perform tasks with the hallmarks of human intelligence: inference, speech recognition, visual perception, planning, learning, and language comprehension.