For anyone who has seen films like Star Wars, Metropolis, or, more recently, TikToks of Beyoncé’s latest tour, the concepts of robots, cyborgs, and other sentient machines have been around since at least the turn of the 20th century. While these pieces capture both the most fantastic and menacing ideas about this kind of technology, reality has been catching up since the 1950s, when Alan Turing published his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” Artificial intelligence isn’t new.
What is new, though, is how accessible AI is. When Turing first asked, “Can machines think?” he was met with so many barriers, including computing limitations and cost. A better question might have been, “Can we even afford to find out?” Now, there’s been such an explosion of AI offerings that 94% of business leaders see AI as essential to their work. But, with better access and more choices, AI implementation has
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