For more than a century, AI has been a favorite topic of science fiction writers and visionaries. It is the ultimate goal of computer science. Today, the term is widely used to refer to many techniques and applications that have little to do with AI as people have imagined it. There remains a great expectation for the day when machines have the comprehension to understand what we say and the intelligence to do what we ask.
With the advent of sapiens, that day is arriving sooner than most experts had envisioned. How will the reality measure up against the decades of hype, hopes, and fears? There is no doubt that the impact will be profound, in ways we can reliably predict and others we cannot.
From our perspective, we are confident that the hopes for AI are more well-founded than the fears. Sapiens are intelligent because at their core they encompass knowledge “curated” from human minds. They will be forever grounded in a perspective of the world that is truly human.