Jeeves or digital Frankenstein? The AI genie came out of the bottle in 2017

The idea is that when something that is already fast is getting to be smarter by the day, we have intelligence on steroids

Like most things technological, AI is a double-edged sword. Jeeves is what we really want, but we are never too far from Aladdin's Genie. 

God created artificial intelligence (AI) because not all of us can afford to employ a Jeeves — the legendary fictional butler created by P G Wodehouse to help his British master, Bertram Wooster.  

If you have spent 2017 without coming across Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri or Cortana, you may be a technological Rip Van Winkle who needs an algorithmic Jeeves to wake you up from a digital-age slumber. It is time