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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Challenges it Poses to Human Society
Since the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) was formally proposed at the Dartmouth College Summer Symposium in 1956, after more than 60 years of development, AI has grown from a baby to a teenager. The development of artificial intelligence has not been smooth sailing. Its first milestone progress was the IBM “Deep Blue” computer defeating the world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Since a major breakthrough in algorithms in 2006, artificial intelligence has developed at an exponential rate. As early as five years ago, the development of special-purpose artificial intelligence and general intelligence was still very uneven. The special-purpose artificial intelligence represented by AlphaGo has a single…