The writer is founder of Sifted, an FT-backed site for European start-ups
On the peanut butter spectrum, artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from smooth to crunchy.
Many of the technology’s most high-profile uses to date have been in the fields of games playing, image recognition and language generation, which we can all recognise. AlphaGo, developed by Google DeepMind, beats the strongest players in the ancient game of Go. Generative adversarial networks create deepfake videos substituting Burt Reynolds’ face for that of Sean Connery in a James Bond film. Open AI’s GPT-3 program can write an unnervingly authentic poem in the style of Emily Dickinson.