Artificial Intelligence -- A Means of Revolution or a Weapon of Mass Unemployment?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the buzz words that have come out of technological advances in the 21st century. However, far from being a buzz word, great strides have been made towards making the technology a reality. AI's goal is to create machines that can share in the intellectual capacity of human beings. At present, it has been proven that machines can be given the level of intelligence as that shared by humans. For instance, an AI machine was able to defeat Garry Kasparov, one of the world most skilled chess players and the reigning world champion at that time, in a game of chess.