AI is the new electricity

"AI is the new electricity," said Andrew Ng, Associate Professor of AI at Stanford University, at MIT's EmTech Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AI is the new electricity? One could argue that electricity is one of humanity's greatest inventions. It ranks right up there with the wheel, the printing press, the combustion engine, and the telephone. The use of electricity has changed our lives to such an extent that life without it would be almost unthinkable.