Why is AI suddenly so relevant?

- [Instructor] Now this is a question that…a lot of my friends and relatives ask me.…They say, Why has AI suddenly become so relevant?…You have Fortune 500 company CEOs…warning us about the dangers of AI,…or the weaponization of AI.…Why is everybody talking about AI lately?…The thing is mechanical men and things like…artificial beings, we've fantasized about…these for a very long time.…So even in Greek myths, we have had references…to these mechanical men, robots, et cetera.…

In the 17th century, people started thinking…deeper about this, and they hypothesized that,…you know, all rational thought…could be made systematic as algebra or geometry.…You know, you might be thinking,…can a computer tell me a joke?…Will a computer ever be able to tell me a poem…or write a beautiful, you know, painting,…or be able to recognize the difference…between good painting or bad,…or appreciate art?…Yes.…

With AI, all of this is possible.…It may not happen today or tomorrow,…but I think it'll happen.…So the Dartmouth conference of 1956,…