Microsoft SharePoint Premium in the Real World

CHAPTER 1Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world as we speak and will continue to do so over the next 10 years and into the future. It will affect our kids and their families, and it will certainly affect us.

“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.”

—Larry Page

“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I'm not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like DeepMind, you have no idea how fast it is growing at a pace close to exponential.”

—Elon Musk

What AI Is—And What It Is Not

Artificial intelligence will help assist workers rather than replace them altogether. For years we have heard that humans will one day be replaced by computers; while that is true for some tasks, artificial intelligence will aid many of us with our mundane day-to-day tasks and allow us to focus on higher-value activities.

Tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT will help make access to information quicker and easier by allowing us to ask it to explain things in a way that we can understand without necessarily having to do a tremendous amount of research. For example, a programmer trying to write a line of code could ask ...