Towards Sustainable Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Create Value and Understand Risk

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G. L. Tsafack ChetsaTowards Sustainable Artificial Intelligencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7214-5_1

1. AI in Our Society

Ghislain Landry Tsafack Chetsa¹  

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London, UK

 

Up to the early 2000s, artificial intelligence (AI) was perceived as a utopia outside of the restricted AI research and development community. A reputation that AI owed to its relatively poor performance at the time. In the early 2000s, significant progress had been made in the design and development of microprocessors, leading to computers capable of efficiently executing AI tasks. Additionally, the ubiquity of the Internet had led to data proliferation, characterized by the continuous ...