Intelligent AI: why education is the key to unleashing the new tech

In 1997, he was the world's number one-ranked chess grandmaster, and considered to be among the best players of all time. But in May that year, he had a match against a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) system designed by IBM. Most experts assumed that Kasparov would win --chess had long been presumed to be one of those complex intellectual pursuits where humans would always be able to beat machines. But over the course of six hard-fought games, and in front of millions watching on television, IBM's AI software came out on top. I find this moment fascinating -- and I'm slightly ashamed to admit that I've spent hours watching each of the games on YouTube. The reason I'm a bit obsessed is that IBM's victory was something of a watershed moment -- a prelude to the AI era we're entering today, in which software is increasingly capable of carrying out tasks that previously required human-level intelligence to do.