The Amazing Artificial Intelligence We Were Promised Is Coming, Finally

AI has applications in every area in which data are processed and decisions required. Wired founding editor Kevin Kelly likened AI to electricity: a cheap, reliable, industrial-grade digital smartness running behind everything. He said that it "will enliven inert objects, much as electricity did more than a century ago. Everything that we formerly electrified we will now "cognitize." This new utilitarian AI will also augment us individually as people (deepening our memory, speeding our recognition) and collectively as a species.