The State of AI in the World – Hacker Noon

As a tech geek and writer for an IT company, I love having discussions about things like Blockchain and AI -- and their impact on our current and future lives -- with my layman best friend (who works in Public Security). He's still waiting for the day I show up at his house in a fully operating Iron Man-like flight suit. I still believe that one day I will. A while ago, we had a very interesting discussion about AI and intelligent systems in general, which reminded me how important it is to regularly talk to people outside of your field of work, to gain new insights. I realize that my friend was intuitively meshing his definition of'Intelligence' with a vague notion of Free Will, which I find to be a strong and useful intuition. The discussion also led me to want to have a better understanding of the current developments in applied Artificial Intelligence in the world, so as to be able to make a better informed prediction of its future.