Search Search Artificial Intelligence is set to shape our lives – and the economy – in 2017 As yet we don’t fully measure these changes that have taken place. If you are reading this on a Facebook feed, you are doing so because you have signalled that this is the sort of stuff you are interested in. -- But we will hear a lot more about the clutch of technologies that potentially can transform our living standards, and accordingly give a practical response to populism by showing that things can and will get better. The core set of these technologies goes under the umbrella term Artificial Intelligence. The New York Times Magazine has just run a piece by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, under the title “The Great A. -- It seems that machines are better at learning from their mistakes than humans are. Inside Story - How can we make the most of artificial intelligence? There is a multitude of other ways in which AI will improve the quality of services.