"The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin."
—Richard Sutton, The Bitter Lessona
During the last seven decades, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has seen astonishing developments—recent AI systems have demonstrated impressive wide-ranging capabilities in areas spanning from mathematics to biology,4,14 and have the potential to influence large fractions of the U.S. economy.6