Last August, an image generated via artificial intelligence took the Colorado State Fair annual art competition prize for digital art/digitally manipulated photography. The entrant, Jason M. Allen, created the piece using a digital image creation program dubbed Midjourney. Similar to tools like DALL-E2 and Stable Diffusion, Midjourney allows users to enter descriptive text that will, with the help of AI, generate art--though not everyone agrees it should be called that. The prize's announcement prompted discussions and generated some backlash from artists and critics, some of whom posed a question: Did Allen cheat by using AI to create his piece, titled Théâtre D'opéra Spatial? The prize also reignited the heated debate about whether machines will lead to the demise of visual art, a form of expression often considered--at least heretofore--as a high and singularly human achievement.

A lot can happen in a decade. Just take a look at how different life is today compared to 2010. Smartphones and automated technologies have made our lives much easier in a lot of ways, while the new age of constant connectivity has altered the way we work, shop, and relate to one another. Far from slowing down, the pace of progress is getting faster all the time. Some of the new technologies on the horizon are prone to change the world as we know it.

Martin Fleming doesn't think robots are coming to take your jobs. The chief economist at IBM, Fleming says those worries aren't backed up by the data. "It's really nonsense," he says. A new paper from MIT and IBM's Watson AI Lab shows that for most of us, the automation revolution probably won't mean physical robots replacing human workers. Instead, it will come from algorithms.

Instead, it will come from algorithms. And while we won't all lose our jobs, those jobs will change, thanks to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Martin Fleming doesn't think robots are coming to take your jobs. The chief economist at IBM, Fleming says those worries aren't backed up by the data. "It's really nonsense," he says. A new paper from MIT and IBM's Watson AI Lab shows that for most of us, the automation revolution probably won't mean physical robots replacing human workers. Instead, it will come from algorithms.