In 2011, IBM put its Watson A.I. computing system, the size of a master bedroom, up against former Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter—it won. In the final round of the three-day man-versus-machine match, Jennings offered a tongue-in-cheek concession: “I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.”
That was more than a decade ago. Since then, OpenAI has reintroduced the world to A.I.’s potential with its November 2022 release of ChatGPT.
