How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Our Lives?

More on Artificial Intelligence Why Artificial Intelligence Sucks Right Now How Can You Tell If a Machine is Thinking? In this episode, Trace tries to imagine what an AI-powered future might look like. One outcome that a lot of futurists predict is "the singularity": the merging of man and machine. In 1990, noted futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that this was the inevitable conclusion of where technology will lead us. Kurzweil reminds us that the computer powering his cellphone is literally several billion times more powerful and 100,000 times smaller than the computers he used 25 years ago.