BBC News ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Predicting the future is always a hit and miss proposition, writes Kevin Anderson. In the 1940s, Thomas Watson, the head of IBM, famously predicted the world demand for computers might be as high as five. And artificial intelligence has had its share of off-target predictions. AI researchers in the 1950s predicted that a computer would be the world chess champion by 1968. It took a few more decades than that.