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The AI Frontier: Which Companies Can Take Us Into New Territory?

“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world.”

― Pedro Domingos, “The Master Algorithm”

Many column inches in business and news media have been devoted to artificial intelligence in 2023, driven by the buzzy introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT (version 3.5) and Microsoft’s splashy announcement of its investment in OpenAI and its integration of ChatGPT into its products. The follow-up me-too announcements from tech rivals like Alphabet, Baidu, Meta, and Alibaba have also added to the hype.

Artificial intelligence is not a new concept. The idea of machines that can reason, think, and behave in a way that approximates or even precisely mimics human behavior appears in fiction from as far back as the 1880s. The phrase “artificial intelligence” (and the field of research to which it refers) goes back to a small conference of mathematicians and scientists held in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College. 

By the 1960s, researchers had developed programs that could solve basic problems in geometry and elementary algebra, or find a path out of a maze. In 1964, Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum developed a natural-language program called ELIZA that cou...

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