AI in Five, Fifty and Five Hundred Years -- Part One

You have to step outside of your own limitations, your own beliefs, your own flawed and fragmented angle on the world and see it from a thousand different perspectives. You have to see giant abstract patterns and filter through human nature, politics, technology, social dynamics, trends, statistics and probability. It's so mind-numbingly complex that our tiny little simian brains stand very little chance of getting it right. Even predicting the future five or ten years out is amazingly complicated. So what am I going to do? Yes, I realize this is utterly insane. It's like climbing Mount Everest, with no shoes, no jacket, no Sherpa, and no oxygen after having barely climbed a small hill! Of course, I'm going to do it anyway. When someone asked George Mallory why he climbed Mt Everest, he said "because it was there." Like many famous quotes, he probably never really said it but who cares? The quote was so good we had to invent it anyway! Let's dive in and take a look at how AI will change society in the next few years, and by the time you're old and grey, and when you're long since turned to dust.