CHAPTER 1Foundational Technologies
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
—Albert Einstein
Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced “always-on” communications are early-stage technologies that are set to completely change the way we think, interact, and operate. They will lead to the complete re-imagining of the way we interact with technology and one another through the reinvention of access points—our devices. They will quickly be able to replicate human processes and improve them to allow us to solve problems we can only dream of today.
Artificial Intelligence
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
—Albert Einstein
Artificial intelligence represents either the underpinning or, at least, an important tool set for the rest of these technologies and in topics well beyond. An obvious first question is, what is artificial intelligence? A currently acceptable definition might be, by simulating human cognitive functions, the ability of a computer or robotic system not only to undertake tasks conducted by human beings, but to learn from the accomplishment of these tasks and improve their execution over time. And, over the last few years, there has been enormous progress in the ability to deliver on this. For instance, Google's new language model, PaLM, can explain why a joke is funny, a key characteristic of human's common sense and reasoning; OpenAI's latest system, ChatGPT, can have conversations and answer queries; ...
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