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- If you're trying to bring the power

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of artificial intelligence
into your business today,

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you may have to overcome the naysayers

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who don't believe AI is
ready for prime time yet.

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To convince the doubters,
you only need to explain

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a few of the building
blocks that came together

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to make AI a reality.

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Artificial intelligence
was dreamed up decades ago.

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It flourished for a while in the 1960s,

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and then disappeared in
disfavor until the late '90s.

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But we go back to 1950 when Alan Turing

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published a paper called,

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"Computing Machinery and
Intelligence" which was all theory.

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If computers could run fast enough

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and if there was enough data,

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then maybe the math could work like this.

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The term artificial
intelligence was coined in 1956

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at a conference at Dartmouth College.

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Between then and the mid-70s,

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venture capital was thrown
at AI where we discovered

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that it is much harder than we thought.

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But four things came together
around the turn of the century

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that made AI possible.

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First, Google and Yahoo figured
out how to link together

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huge numbers of computers,
central processing units, CPUs,

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giving us massive computing power.

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And the gaming industry
played a big part here

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because they had manufactured
graphical processing units,

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GPUs, which were much
faster and just the ticket

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for the kind of calculations AI needs.

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Next was the explosive
growth of the amount of data

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that we have at our fingertips,

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megabytes and gigabytes
just wasn't enough.

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We would need terabytes
and petabytes of data

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for AI to chew one, and now we have it

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thanks to the internet.

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And the internet also gave
us a giant leap forward

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in online data storage, the cloud.

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Not only did we have a huge
amount of data to play with,

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there was finally a place to store it all.

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The last piece of the puzzle

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was the whole open source movement.

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When software is published openly,

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everybody can make improvements,
speeding the process.

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Because of open-source philosophy,

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the majority of research into
AI has been freely published

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for anybody to read and to use.

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Google, Microsoft, IBM,
Amazon have all made AI tools

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and access to data all but free

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in order to encourage the world

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to push this technology forward.

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Put all these together and
we can now run AI programs

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on your phone and your wristwatch.

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So next time somebody
tries to block your idea

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about putting AI to
use in your department,

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you can confidently tell
them that the time has come,

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now is the time to get started.