Title:
How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are: Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute
Author:
Will Douglas Heaven
Published:
MIT Technology Review, 22 October 2021
From the article:
Today’s computers are] smaller and faster, but they’re still boxes with processors that run instructions from humans. AI changes that on at least three fronts: how computers are made, how they’re programmed, and how they’re used. Ultimately, it will change what they are for.
"The core of computing is changing from number-crunching to decision-making," says Pradeep Dubey, director of the parallel computing lab at Intel. Or, as MIT CSAIL director Daniela Rus puts it, AI is freeing computers from their boxes.