In the middle of the 20th century, the world entered the age of information, the shift of industry to information technology. The era began with the miniaturization of computers and culminated with the invention of the World Wide Web, which put the ability to access information at nearly everyone’s fingertips. Now, with the rise of AI, that age is over, according to some tech leaders, and a new age of technology has begun.
“We have transitioned from [an] information era to intelligence era,” Prakhar Mehrotra, PayPal senior vice president and global head of AI, said at the Fortune Brainstorm AI conference earlier this month.
