CHAPTER 2

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term used to describe when computers and machines mimic human behavior and simulate human intelligence. Because, by definition, AI-driven machines appear to make decisions like humans, it’s easy to see why some notables, including Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, have extrapolated far into the future and warned that once AI surpasses human intelligence, it might decide humans are a problem and are no longer needed. As I’m not writing science fiction at this moment and virtually every AI expert predicts that it would be many decades if ever before artificial intelligence will even match humans and even longer before they think for themselves, let’s focus on how AI will ...

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