Artificial Intelligence: Capturing the State of AI in 15 Stats Formtek Blog

Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking earlier in the year all said that the rapid advance of Artificial Intelligence is something that we should be worried about. Yet just a few months later Elon Musk was in the news for investing in a 1 billion venture with the single goal of rapidly advancing the research of Artificial Intelligence. The message seems to be that Artificial Intelligence has the potential to bring about enormous change, but there is also a need for vigilance so that we can minimize the risks and potential dangers of the technology. Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, told CNBC earlier in the week that "I think artificial intelligence is going to be transforming massive swaths of the area of work in the economy. Ten to twenty years from now if you're going to be an effective lawyer, doctor, or financial analyst, it will be in part your ability to use the technological implements, loosely going under the name of artificial intelligence."