CHAPTER 9
EMBRACING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
It has been called the equivalent of the invention of electricity, or even the harnessing of fire. It has also been called God, as John Thornhill, the FT’s innovation editor and author of the foreword to this book, said at an FT Forums meeting. Or, as the tech analyst Benedict Evans said, it may just amount to having an infinite number of interns.
We are talking about artificial intelligence, or AI, also known as machine learning. It is seen by some as heralding a revolutionary information age, one that will free us from drudge work, help leaders make better decisions, provide patients with more accurate diagnoses and make translation so fast and accurate that no one will need to bother to learn a ...
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