If you think artificial intelligence was huge in 2016, just wait. While you can’t discount the achievements made by AI in the past year — autonomous driving, AlphaGo’s victories, the world’s saddest assistant — 2017 stands to best each of them. And we’ve started with January off with a bang (and an AI that’s now $800,000 richer, sorta). All of this pales in comparison to what’s to come. As amazing as current AI seems, it’s a compounding effect that uses previous advancements to build upon the last until AI ultimately starts to learn from its mistakes and get smarter than every.…
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