Council Post: AI: The Apex Technology Of The Information Age

While the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has made steady progress over the past few decades, only recently did progress rapidly accelerate, allowing scientific achievements to be translated into real-world use cases. In the last few years, AI has been developing at a consistently rapid pace and has achieved an inflection point. But before we can examine just how AI is revolutionizing our way of life, we must first look at how it got to where it is today. AI had already entered the minds of prominent scientists by the 1950s, as evidenced by Alan Turing's 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Between 1957 and 1974, computing capacity advanced to the point where people were able to improve machine learning algorithms and put AI to use.