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When Artificial Intelligence Meets Actual Life

When we wrote about the Great Tech War of 2012—and predicted that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google would drive broader change through the economy—AI was still nascent.

Six years ago, Fast Company’s editorial team had an insight: that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google were increasingly expanding into contiguous businesses. Their competition, we believed, was pushing all of them to be even more ambitious—and pushing everyone else to innovate

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