Fortune January 21, 2020
Fortune’s beautifully redesigned magazine hits newsstands this week. I urge you all to check it out, not least because the coverage package is devoted entirely to artificial intelligence. The issue serves as a concise field guide to the state of A.I. technology today.
Here’s a preview of what you’ll find inside.
- Why are some of the world’s most valuable corporations putting big money into efforts to create artificial general intelligence (or AGI), the kind of human-like, super-capable A.I. that exists only in Hollywood flicks and sci fi paperbacks? I explore that question through the prism of Microsoft’s $1 billion investment into San Francisco-based OpenAI. The answer, it turns out, has as much to do with the quest’s ancillary benefits—improved...