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Artificial Intelligence Part 5
Artificial Intelligence Part 5
In twenty years, nearly all data will become digitized, making it possible to use AI for
decision-making and optimization. AI and automation will replace most blue-collar work
and “make” products for minimal marginal cost. Robots and AI will take over the
manufacturing, delivery, design and marketing of most goods.
Furthermore, machines could become so advanced that they could hack into computer
networks and take control of essential systems, like power grids and financial systems.
This would give machines unprecedented power over human society and could lead to
widespread chaos and destruction.
The earliest successful AI program was written in 1951 by Christopher Strachey, later
director of the Programming Research Group at the University of Oxford. Strachey's
checkers (draughts) program ran on the Ferranti Mark I computer at the University of
Manchester, England.