On course for a sustainable future withartificial intelligence

On course for a sustainable future with

As the computer scientist John McCarthy posited in 1956, “every aspect … of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it”.

Indeed, only 30 years after this fundamental principle of artificial intelligence (AI) was formulated, the first chess computers shocked the world. Today, another 30 years later, we tell our car where to go, dictate pages of correspondence to a word processing program and complain to a computer-generated hotline assistant.

These systems translate human speech into binary code and, if desired, back again –into any language. This allows the Bulgarian taxi driver to understand where the German tourist in the backseat would like to go.  Such tremendous computing power is contained within a handy smartphone that can also capture high definition photos, stream movies and shows from vast libraries, and enable instantaneous international video conferencing.

Today, nearly every other person on the planet has access to the mostly free services of this “mobile intelligence”. Leading influencer Dalith Steiger: “Artificial intelligence will change every area of our lives.” During a train journey along Lake Zurich, we talked to Dalith Steiger, co-founder of the award-winning organization SwissCognitive –The Global AI Hub.

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