When will AI really happen? (Think back to the section on General Purpose Technologies, and how all previous generations of civilization either had 0, 1, or sometimes 2 In 2015, the blogger Tim Urban saw his posts on brand-new technologies to contend with—verses the “The AI Revolution” go extremely viral (to the point number of new technologies that we have today, that Elon Musk then asked Mr. Urban to blog about and we will have tomorrow…) Tesla’s work. Talk about good compliments!) Equally good are these 4 charts: Mr. Urban’s blog, called “Wait But Why?” is well- known for its extremely researched explanations of really hard to comprehend things. Here’s the chart that became most well-known from his report on the current state of AI, and its likely future: Source: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1 97
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