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The Future Of AI: What To Expect In The Next 5 Years

Enterprise AI, Thursday, January 25th, 2024

AI's impact in the next five years? Human life will speed up, behaviors will change and industries will be transformed -- and that's what can be predicted with certainty.

For the first half of the 20th century, the concept of artificial intelligence held meaning almost exclusively for science fiction fans. In literature and cinema, androids, sentient machines and other forms of AI sat at the center of many of science fiction's high-water marks -- from Metropolis to I, Robot. In the second half of the last century, scientists and technologists began earnestly attempting to realize AI.

Brief history of AI's impact on society

At the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, co-host John McCarthy introduced the phrase artificial intelligence and helped incubate an organized community of AI researchers.

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