5 ways AI will disrupt science -- Future Earth Media Lab

In 2011, Artificial Intelligence (AI) came of age when IBM's Watson computer beat two human contestants to win Jeopardy. These were not any two contestants. Ken Jennings had won 74 times consecutively and Brad Rutter had pocketed the biggest pot in history -- 3.25 million. In the battle between men and machine, Watson's win was historic. Jennings was sanguine about losing: "I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords."