Hong Kong, China It's 2050 and the world revolves around you. From the contents of your fridge to room temperature -- digital assistants ensure your home runs smoothly. Your screens know your taste and show channels you want to see as you enter the room. Your car is driverless and your favourite barman may just be an android. Predictions for an AI-dominated future are increasingly common, but Antoine Blondeau has experience in reading, and arguably manipulating, the runes -- he helped develop technology that evolved into predictive texting and Apple's Siri.

When Antoine Blondeau, the co-founder and chairman of Sentient Technologies, first began working with artificial intelligence, the concept was still known as "algorithmic science." In the decades since, AI has evolved into a much sexier topic because, according to Blondeau, when operating on mission speed and plugged into the right workflow, AI will learn quicker and faster than humans--resulting in business models that can evolve at machine speed. "That is the revolution," notes Blondeau....

Sentient also released a new solution to AB testing called Sentient Ascend. Right now, the conversion rate optimization, CRO, industry, is based on AB testing, where you test a new design against an old design. "We decided we could transform this industry by completely dissolving the concept of AB testing, by thinking of the website no longer being a static property, but a dynamic property that is always evolving based on the way it interacts with your audience. We wanted to enable the marketer to make changes to quickly see market and conversion rate improvements. Our solution points to the fallacy of AB testing, where you come with a defined preconception of what to test against. We want to open the floodgates and show people that they don't have to limit themselves to a test. The number of possible combinations is so large that it's impossible to explore the surface exhaustively or comprehensively, except with an intelligent system that learns from every interaction, and understands from that learning what matters, what doesn't, and progressively builds solutions," says Blondeau.

It's 2050 and the world revolves around you. From the contents of your fridge to room temperature, digital assistants ensure your home runs smoothly. Your screens know your taste and show channels you want to see as you enter the room. Your car is driverless and your favourite barman may just be an Android. Predictions for an AI-dominated future are increasingly common, but Antoine Blondeau has experience in reading, and arguably manipulating, the runes, he helped develop technology that evolved into predictive texting and Apple's Siri.

HONG KONG: It's 2050 and the world revolves around you. From the contents of your fridge to room temperature - digital assistants ensure your home runs smoothly. Your screens know your taste and show channels you want to see as you enter the room. Your car is driverless and your favourite barman may just be an android. Predictions for an AI-dominated future are increasingly common, but Antoine Blondeau has experience in reading, and arguably manipulating, the runes - he helped develop technology that evolved into predictive texting and Apple's Siri.

It's 2050 and the world revolves around you. From the contents of your fridge to room temperature -- digital assistants ensure your home runs smoothly. Your screens know your taste and show channels you want to see as you enter the room. Your car is driverless and your favourite barman may just be an android. Predictions for an AI-dominated future are increasingly common, but Antoine Blondeau has experience in reading, and arguably manipulating, the runes -- he helped develop technology that evolved into predictive texting and Apple's Siri.

But behind every good strategy is good data. Take Korean War veteran and US Air Force officer John Boyd as an example. He was tasked with analysing the outcome of dogfights – aerial battles between fighter planes conducted at close range – and come up with a way to save the lives of more American pilots. What Boyd created was a framework for decision-making that is known as the OODA loop. OODA refers to the recurring cycle of four actions: observe, orient, decide and act.

Until now, humans have held sway as the most dominant force on Earth. Despite lacking some of the physical attributes of a host of other species, we have conquered the planet by virtue of our mighty minds. Yet by 2025, a computer costing as little as $1,000 will have the equivalent processing speed of the human brain, according to Silicon Valley engineer and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis. And artificial intelligence systems are already faster and more accurate than humans when searching vast databases for anomalies or patterns in customer behaviour. They can also "learn" from what they have discovered and react to those findings.

Until now, humans have held sway as the most dominant force on Earth. Despite lacking some of the physical attributes of a host of other species, we have conquered the planet by virtue of our mighty minds. Yet by 2025, a computer costing as little as $1,000 will have the equivalent processing speed of the human brain, according to Silicon Valley engineer and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis. And artificial intelligence systems are already faster and more accurate than humans when searching vast databases for anomalies or patterns in customer behaviour. They can also "learn" from what they have discovered and react to those findings.

This article was first published in the April 2016 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. In 2008, Antoine Blondeau co-founded artificial intelligence (AI) startup Sentient Technologies, with a team that had worked on laying the foundations of the technology that would become Apple's Siri. The 60-employee company has raised 143 million, making it the world's most funded AI company. Using AI to solve any problem - from financial trading to deadly diseases.