Like many new disciplines, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has developed through a series of fits and starts—lurching and reeling from side to side like an awkward Frankenstein Ian robot through summers of unbridled optimism and winters of profound discontent as it blindly gropes its way ahead toward a still-nebulous future. Now, it seems, the field is once again making firm strides forward in applications that are both capturing the imagination of pundits and stoking the fears of the public. Over the past decades, Jeff has been lucky enough to follow some of these developments from a front-row seat. In a nontechnical manner, he will answer major questions about AI—what it is, what can be done with it, what are some of the risks and concerns, and what we can expect in the future.