AI Everywhere & Nowhere (Part 1) – Tempered Excitement

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage in the popular press this week. Even if you are an Alien who just landed on Earth from a planet far away, it is impossible to miss the headlines that AlphaGo--the AI program developed by Google--beat the world champion of the game Go Lee Sedol 4-1. Why is there such excitement about this AI program beating the human champion? What is in fact AI or Artificial Intelligence? What does this all mean to our businesses or each one of us? To be even more melodramatic – what does this mean for humanity?