Computers have gained a cardinal place in modern societies, thanks to higher efficiencies and miniaturisation. However, their dramatic progress will soon have to stop as the limits of miniaturisation are being reached. Furthermore, few people realise that those computers are, in fact, not as powerful as they seem to be. And while the world champion at Go lost to a computer, an average human still beats a computer at relatively easy tasks such as recognising an object in a picture.
Artificial intelligence is the key to more versatile computing machines capable of solving such challenging tasks.
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