The Future of Artificial Intelligence

Even apart from the enduring dream of human-like intelligence, the future of AI is expected to play a deeply significant role in consumer and business markets. Artificial intelligence's impact on the world has already been felt in a variety of ways, from chess computers to search engine algorithms to a chatbot so convincing that a Google researcher thinks it's sentient. Obviously, the future of AI can't be predicted any more than tomorrow's lottery numbers can. But even as the research in the field drives the technology further and further, we can put our futurist caps on and speculate about what the world might look like in an AI-driven future. Fiction can have an impact on real-world scientific research.