Opinion: Artificial intelligence will show how smart humans can become

Shoppers using Dash Carts at the first Amazon Fresh grocery store in Naperville, Illinois, on Dec 10, 2020. The high-tech Dash Carts automatically ring items up as they're selected and allow shoppers to skip the checkout line. Amazon intends to invest more than US$150bil over the next 15 years on artificial intelligence data centres around the world. — Chicago Tribune/TNS

The Seattle area is in the thick of the race for artificial intelligence dominance.

The most recent evidence comes from Amazon, which intends to invest more than US$150bil (RM713bil) over the next 15 years on data centres around the world.