Is AI the Biggest Thing Ever?

Published: May 19, 2018, 2:30 a.m.

b'Google CEO Sundar Pichai certainly seems to think so.\\n\\nArtificial intelligence could be our saviour, according to the CEO of Google\\n\\nAI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire,\\u201d he said. \\u201cAny time you work with technology, you need to learn to harness the benefits while minimising the downsides.\\n\\nCould something really be bigger than fire or electricity?\\n\\nFire enabled cooking, forging, baking clay. It is a cornerstone of civilization. Electricity facilitated and accelerated industrialization and provided for a communications revolution. It ultimately powered digitization.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\nLet\\u2019s explore the changes that AI may enable that really will make it the biggest thing ever.\\n\\nWT 440-753\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\\n\\nImage from Pixabay.com'