Artificial intelligence has accrued some very bad reputation over the years. For some, the term AI has become synonymous with the mass unemployment, mass slavery, and mass extermination of humans by robots. For others, AI often conjures dystopian images of Terminator, The Matrix, Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and warning tweets from Elon Musk. But many experts believe that those interpretations don’t do justice to one of the technologies that will have a lot of positive impact on human life and society. Augmented intelligence (AI), also referred to as intelligence augmentation (IA) and cognitive augmentation, is a complement—not a replacement—to human intelligence. It’s about helping…
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