Artificial Intelligence Comes of Age—Slowly
The MIT Press eBooks · 2018
Perhaps it was the success of IBM's Watson in beating—actually, decimating—the best human players of the television game Jeopardy! in January 2011 that encouraged other organizations to take on highly ambitious “moon shots” with artificial intelligence (AI). After they saw an AI system dominate a game show with difficult and oddly worded questions and answers, people may have begun to believe that AI could take on any problem—even curing cancer.