Defining our relationship with early AI

Andrew Heikkila is a tech enthusiast and writer from Boise, Idaho. More posts by this contributor: Let's start getting excited about robots taking our jobs Let's start getting excited about robots taking our jobs Let's start getting excited about robots taking our jobs Artificial intelligence has fascinated mankind for more than half a century, with the first public mention of computer intelligence recorded during a London lecture by Alan Turing in 1947. More recently, the public has been exposed to headlines that have increasingly contained references to the growing power of AI, whether that's been AlphaGo's defeat of legendary Go player Lee Se-dol, Microsoft's racist AI bot named Tay or any other number of new developments in the machine learning field. Once a plot device for science-fiction tales, AI is becoming real -- and human beings are going to have to define their relationship with it sooner rather than later. Peter Diamandis, co-founder and vice-chairman at Human Longevity, Inc., touches on that relationship in a post he authored on LinkedIn, titled "The next sexual revolution will be digitized."