A few years back, a computer won a chess match against the world’s most highly rated player.
More recently, a computer beat a pair of highly skilled human competitors on the game show Jeopardy! IBM, the company responsible for building both of these remarkable machines, announced that Watson, the computer that won on Jeopardy!, is (in effect) going to medical school. Machine intelligence is evolving rapidly.
The questions this raises are both simple and powerful:
How long until machine intelligence reaches the level of human intelligence?
How long, after that, before human / machine intelligence reaches a level far beyond anything seen or imagined before?
A panel of futurists and AI experts join us to discuss the coming intelligence explosion.
Phil Bowermaster is a nationally recognized author and speaker. He has more than 25 years experience writing about emerging technologies and the future. As co-host of the popular Internet radio series, The World Transformed, Phil has talked with leading scientists and technologists, best-selling authors, philosophers, filmmakers, artists, entrepreneurs and others who are shaping our understanding of the amazing era of transformation in which we live.
Phil helps leaders and their organizations develop strategies for managing accelerating change. He shows how imagination, optimism, empathy, and humor can make all the difference in both understanding and making the most of the powerful currents of change we face.
A few years back, a computer won a chess match against the world’s most highly rated player.
