We are currently living in a world where we prioritize the use of self driving cars to drive us around, voice and facial recognition to keep our cell phones secured, and google search to answer our most basic questions. This type of technology is everywhere around us and we are only beginning to understand how to utilize it. Many people aren't aware of the rapid advancements scientists are making towards machine learning. This type of technology is being used by almost every large tech company and will continue to make advancements because of the potential it carries. Most AI in todays modern world are specialized, meaning they are meant to do one thing and process information and numbers for one specific outcome.

Superhuman performance by artificial intelligence (AI) has been demonstrated in two-player, deterministic, zero-sum, perfect-information games (1) such as chess, checkers (2), Hex, and Go (3). Research using AI has broadened to include games with challenging attributes such as randomness, multiple players, or imperfect information. Randomness is a feature of dice games, and card games include the additional complexity that each player sees some cards that are hidden from others. These aspects more closely resemble real-world situations, and this research may thus lead to algorithms with wider applicability. On page 885 of this issue, Brown and Sandholm (4) show that a new computer player called Pluribus exceeds human performance for six-player Texas hold'em poker.

Big questions about humanity's future also merit a side question over humanity's future alongside machines.How long before AI outperforms humans in various tasks? A bracing new study presents responses from professionals working in that field. Evidence from AI Experts," is by Katja Grace, John Salvatier, Allan Dafoe, Baobao Zhang and Owain Evans, and it is on arXiv. Actually, this paper reveals not if this will happen but when, asking how many things will AI be able to do even better than we can? "Researchers believe there is a 50% chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks in 45 years and of automating all human jobs in 120 years." Interestingly, Asian respondents expected the dates much sooner than did North Americans.