Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now?
“No one really knows where the value is,” said Marc Benioff, co-founder and chief executive of Salesforce. “I think I know — it’s in helping people do the things that people are good at, and turning more things over to machines.”
.. Much of today’s A.I. boom goes back to 2006, when Amazon started selling cheap computing over the internet.
.. Suddenly, old A.I. experiments were relevant, and money and cheap data resources were available for building new algorithms.
.. How will we know when the A.I. revolution has taken hold? A technology truly matures when it disappears.
.. A.I. is probably heading for the same places, invisibly sorting through lots of data everywhere to continuously update and automate most of our lives.