AI in Five, Fifty and Five Hundred Years — Part One

Prediction is a tricky business.

You have to step outside of your own limitations, your own beliefs, your own flawed and fragmented angle on the world and see it from a thousand different perspectives. You have to see giant abstract patterns and filter through human nature, politics, technology, social dynamics, trends, statistics and probability.

(We have to transcend the relativity of our own perspectives to see the future)

It’s so mind-numbingly complex that our tiny little simian brains stand very little chance of getting it right. Even predicting the future five or ten years out is amazingly complicated.

So what am I going to do?

I’m going to try to...