Artificial Intelligence will help us make better decisions. That’s word from experts present at the annual Brainscape conference in Dubai. Kevin Slavin is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab in the US, and says we have only just begun to see how artificial intelligence can play a part in our daily lives. He says we have got used to the idea of driverless cars and online searches customised to our likes but there’s a lot more potential.
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