Artificial intelligence (AI) has come to us gradually, which makes it hard to grasp why AI is so disruptive.
Similar to the internet decades ago, artificial intelligence will affect every field of human endeavor but exponentially. Why?
- AI is capable of learning, adapting, and discovering in unexpected ways because it accesses aspects of reality differently from humans.
- The quantum leap in AI came when it shifted from symbolic AI to neural networks.
- AI is beginning to challenge our models of the world in ways that will impact our social, political, and economic structures; we are not prepared for it.