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Artificial intelligence (Al)           around since the birth of computers in the 1950s. The original pioneers              of making 'computer brains' that could perform the same kinds of tasks as our own brains, such as playing chess or translating languages. But hopes that Al would quickly reach human-level intelligence             to fruition. Over the following decades, technology             at an exponential rate. Computers got faster, and the internet              .