Tracking the New Boom in AI

The inaugural Fortune 50 AI Innovators list is the definitive guide to a sector that's now attracting one out of every four startup investment dollars.

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IT'S A TANGLED MESS out there when it comes to predictions about AI's impact. If Elon Musk is right, AI will create a world where "no job is needed." Futurist Ray Kurzweil believes that by 2029, computers will have achieved human-level intelligence. In the meantime, examples of AI behaving like a defiant and clumsy teenager are everywhere, with reports of a bot expressing a willingness to engage in insider trading, and then lying about it to its human overlords or placing a poll next to a news story about a young woman's mysterious death and asking How did this person die? as a means of increasing reader engagement.