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ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK: Brave new world of AI offers hope of service with a smile
'Labour-intensive information-processing jobs still use human beings, but will soon use artificial intelligence'
Who remembers what the internet looked like in 1995? That was the year commercial traffic was officially allowed across the network for the first time. The banks arrived online with scanned brochures, and Yahoo! dominated directories and searching. At the end of that year, a total of 16 million people were using the internet. The digital world today is unimaginably more advanced, interactive and competitive. Close to four billion people are online. Using a combination of cloud, search engines and social media, a web-based business starting today can reach 16 million people in weeks. This dramatic evolution offers just an inkling of the potential of artificial intelligence. "What I see in AI today is like the internet back in 1995, when we were just using Netscape to go online and research some information," said Maverick Shih, president of the Build Your Own Cloud smart products division at Acer. "Then came a bookstore called Amazon, services like weather, and suddenly we had the al...
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