“When compared to other branches of engineering, like electrical, chemical, nuclear, and mechanical engineering, AI’s impact on the world is admittedly modest… but this is mostly accounted for by the fact that AI, as a field, is only fifty-five years old. Fifty-five years after its discovery, electricity was still mainly seen as a laboratory curiosity. A hundred years later, it formed the backbone of our industrial civilization, and if anything, AI has even greater potential.”

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