AI’s sudden big leap forward into usefulness

In just a few weeks, technology has advanced to a level where it could have wide-ranging applications

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AI’s sudden big leap forward into usefulness

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Richard Waters For all its huge potential, the field of artificial intelligence has been something of a backwater in the investment world. There are companies that have ridden the AI wave in important ways: Google claims to have refined many of its services with the help of AI, machine learning has boosted sales of Nvidia’s graphics processing units and TikTok’s algorithm is reputedly a big part of what keeps users coming back to its short videos. But it’s hard to find...