Insight 2017: It's time for us to seriously consider prospect of artificial intelligence - Firstpost

The year 2016 was big for AI or Artificial Intelligence in the public consciousness. It seemed like people were talking about it everywhere, so surely there's no need to discuss it more? The thing is, though, many of the most intelligent people in the world consider the potential creation of true AI to be the most revolutionary development in human history, and they've been extremely vocal about both its promise and its perils. So as we start 2017, (a year that some are calling the tipping point for AI) maybe it's time for the rest of us to start thinking a little harder about it too? Let's start by clarifying some things -- AI already exists in the world, but these are the very narrow, task-based systems that live in most of our phones, our maps, or quite recently, our translation apps, and are collectively referred to as narrow AI (or ANI).