Summary: Over the past two miniseries we've discussed <a title="Miniseries 1: What is Science and How Does It Work?" href="http://thewonderofreality.com/episode-guide/miniseries-1-what-is-science-and-how-does-it-work/">how to conduct good science</a> and <a title="Miniseries 2: How Humans are Fallible" href="http://thewonderofreality.com/episode-guide/miniseries-2-how-humans-are-fallible/">how humans make mistakes</a>. In this miniseries we wanted to look ahead at how technology could completely transform our world and revolutionize our lives. In this episode we discuss artificial intelligence, how it could come about, the impact it would have on our lives, and how we're on the path to achieve it. So sit back and take a trip to the future with us in our first episode of Miniseries 3: <a title="Miniseries 3: The Technologies of Tomorrow" href="http://thewonderofreality.com/episode-guide/miniseries-3-the-technologies-of-tomorrow/">The Technologies of Tomorrow</a>. Links: Our <a title="Episode 12: Artificial Intelligence (Show Notes)" href="http://thewonderofreality.com/episode-guide/miniseries-3-the-technologies-of-tomorrow/episode-12-artificial-intelligence-show-notes/">Show Notes</a> for the episode <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe#Number_of_possible_games" target="_blank">Tic-tac-toe</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number" target="_blank">Number of possible chess positions</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)" target="_blank">Deep Blue</a> <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.hu/2012/08/the-self-driving-car-logs-more-miles-on.html" target="_blank">Google Self-Driving Cars are accident free</a> <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/04/economist-explains-how-self-driving-car-works-driverless" target="_blank">How driverless cars work</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">Watson and understanding Jeopardy clues</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI" target="_blank">Strong AI</a> <a title="Episode 6: Statistics, Philosophy, and Science" href="http://thewonderofreality.com/episode-6-statistics-philosophy-and-science/" target="_blank">Episode 6 and Netflix Prize</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html" target="_blank">Evidence of Machine Learning</a> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/02/08/ibms-watson-gets-its-first-piece-of-business-in-healthcare/" target="_blank">Watson and Medicine</a> <a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/05/20/bored-with-mere-medicine-ibms-watson-adds-customer-service-to-its-resume/" target="_blank">Watson and Customer Service</a>
