AI is the new electricity

Six reasons why artificial intelligence is a lot like electricity, starting with, 'You plug it in – and it works.' "AI is the new electricity," said Andrew Ng, Associate Professor of AI at Stanford University, at MIT's EmTech Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AI is the new electricity? One could argue that electricity is one of humanity's greatest inventions. It ranks right up there with the wheel, the printing press, the combustion engine, and the telephone.