A patient walks into the emergency department at Rush University Medical Center with a fever and bloodshot eyes. In days of yore, doctors would have to exhaustthe obvious possibilities - like a flu or allergic reaction - before finally figuring a patient was suffering from Zika virus. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a modern computing field that attempts to augment machine development to the point where it transcends human intelligence. The subject incorporates the concepts of computation and statistics with brain physiology, to create autonomous sentient machines capable of extrapolating independent conclusions. The success to creating a successful AI is contingent upon success... Have you heard the one about how our jobs are about to be snatched away by machines?