Where Will Artificial Intelligence Take Us In The Future?

Just a few years back, if you had been told that by 2024, you would be able to have a conversation with a computer that would seem almost completely human, would you have believed it?

So what do you think AI will be capable of in ten, twenty or even fifty years’ time?

Of course, it’s impossible to predict for sure – but it seems a fairly safe bet that many things that seem entirely impossible today will be a part of everyday life.

By now, it’s clear that AI is the great breakthrough technology of our times. And as with other breakthrough technologies – fire, steam power, electricity, computing – now it exists, it is only going to continue to evolve and become more capable.
However, one unique feature of AI is its ability to improve itself. As AI helps create more advanced AI, I believe progress will accelerate in ways that we haven’t previously seen.

So, let's take a look at where this could go. Of course, these are really just ideas rather than predictions, but it’s fun to speculate. So get ready for a trip into the amazing, automated and wonderful (or perhaps not always so wonderful) world of the future.

Future AI Milestones
Futurists predict that the evolution of AI will be marked by a number of significant milestones. Each one will represent a giant leap forward in the capabilities of machine intelligence, as well as the challenges and risks it poses. While we can’t be sure exactly when they will happen, this is (maybe) the order in which we can expect them to arrive.
AGI
AGI stands for artificial general intelligence and refers to machines that are able to apply their knowledge and learning ability to a wide range of tasks. Most AI today is "narrow" or "specialized" and designed for specific tasks. True generalized AI will have the capacity to think, act and behave far more closely to the way we do across tasks involving creativity and complex problem-solving.
Quantum AI
This is about the convergence of quantum physics, which deals with particles at a sub-atomic level, and AI. Quantum computing is in its infancy today but can already complete some computational tasks up to 100 million times faster than “classical” computing. In the future, it will be possible to use it to power AI algorithms, supercharging their ability to process huge datasets and solve complex problems like optimization and cryptography.
The Singularity
This is a hypothetical point in the future where AI surpasses human intelligence and begins to improve itself autonomously and exponentially. The results of this are difficult to predict, as it may have very different ideas about the way it should evolve and the decisions it should make than we do.