Where will artificial intelligence take us in the future? - The Jerusalem Post

The vast potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) struck me during a trip to Guangzhou, China before the outbreak of COVID-19. I was asked, as editor of The Jerusalem Report, to address a news conference of Chinese journalists in English. To my surprise, I noticed that my speech was being relayed by an AI app in real time on a screen behind me – with subtitles in Chinese. The Oxford English Dictionary defines Artificial Intelligence, which was established as an academic discipline in 1956, as "the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages." "The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages."