Artificial Intelligence Is Already Common -- and It's About to Take Over

Artificial Intelligence Is Already Common -- and It's About to Take Over

There's a frequently cited PwC report that says that 38% of U.S. jobs are at risk of being overtaken by artificially intelligent automation by 2030. Similarly, a Scientific American article warned earlier this year that 40% of the top 500 companies will vanish within a decade as they fall victim to artificial intelligence (AI).

Let's be honest here, those predictions are pretty easy to dismiss right now. The average person can take a look around and ask, "Where is all of this scary AI?" After all, the world's leading AI companies -- Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google, chipmaker NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) -- aren't showing TV ads about buying new AI bots just yet. So why worry? 

But AI is already starting to take over in very subtle ways, and there's plenty of evidence that as AI becomes a bigger part of what these companies do it'll eventually become a bigger part of how our world functions. 

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