 but there's still a lot of hype and hot air around it. Understanding what's fact, what's fiction, and what's marketing spiel is essential if you want to take advantage of it. One claim that's being made with increasing frequency is that machine intelligence will, at some point, perhaps soon, surpass human intelligence. This is known as the singularity and is important for many reasons, chief among them being that it'll mark the first point in human history that will share the planet with entities that are smarter than us.