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The future of AI is often framed in dramatic, dystopian visions, like robots stealing human jobs leading to mass unemployment, or corporations and governments using powerful technologies for population surveillance. …

Artificial intelligence (AI) could be the most transformative technology in the history of mankind — and we may not even see much of this sweeping change coming. That’s because we often overestimate what technologies can do in five years, and underestimate what they will be able to do in 20. …

With continuing advances in machine learning, it makes less and less sense to compare AI to the human mind. Speech and language are central to human intelligence, communication, and cognitive processes. …

The global pandemic has heightened our understanding and sense of importance of our own health and the fragility of healthcare systems around the world. We’ve all come to realize how archaic many of our health processes are, and that, if we really want to, we can move at lightning speed…

In 20 years, AI will be able to measure and improve human health as well as help us have more happy moments. The magic of AI rests in its uncanny ability to optimize a given goal in a specific way for each person. AI trains “neural networks” on huge amounts…

A human perspective shift for the 21st Century. In August, Elon Musk announced that he was developing a humanoid robot called “Tesla Bot” — a prototype of which will supposedly be ready in 2022. The presentation itself was slightly bizarre, both because the bot was represented on stage by a…

For many years now, China has been the world’s factory. Even in 2020, as other economies struggled with the effects of the pandemic, China’s manufacturing output was $3.854 trillion, up from the previous year, accounting for nearly a third of the global market. But if you are still thinking of…

Overstretched teachers could soon get much-needed smart assistants. Distance learning has been around for years. But it still came as a rude shock to parents and children when the pandemic forced more than a billion students around the world to try to learn via a screen at home. Under-resourced teachers…

Embracing artificial intelligence can help us create a new, equitable social contract — but only if we remember what makes us human. This is an article from Turning Points, a special section that explores what critical moments from this year might mean for the year ahead. Turning Point: The coronavirus…