Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI highlighted the concerns of US companies doing business in China, the confidence of psychiatrists in their jobs' resistance to AI displacement, and the bursting of the drone and autonomous vehicles bubbles. An attendant stands next to a CloudMinds Technology Inc. XR-1 commercial humanoid service robot at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. Most of the projections about AI are wrong … people like us, street-smart, we are not scared by it… and we want to challenge ourselves to embrace it"--Jack Ma "Humans may become too slow. A millisecond is an eternity to a computer today. Computers are already smarter than human beings in many aspects…AI will be vastly smarter"--Elon Musk AI is "mimicking the brain" (or not) quote of the week: "Can software-based neural networks usefully approximate the (fuzzier, more complex) machinery of the organic brain?

In the contemporary world, artificial intelligence is amongst our grasp. An intelligence that can process more information at speeds that weren't previously conceivable. It is not that the idea behind AI is a new one. While AI has been around since centuries, it has never had the scope of application that it does today. For instance, consider a scenario where we can ask the Google Assistant to find restaurants near me.