By Jason Bloom and Stephanie Sivinski ( March 9, 2018, 5:38 PM EST) -- When Philip Dick wrote the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the inspiration for the 1982 film Blade Runner, artificial intelligence was more fiction than science. Fifty years later, the Harvard Business Review predicts that AI will be the single biggest technological development of our era, as transformative as the steam engine or electricity.[1] AI's hallmark is machine learning, a machine's ability to improve its performance on a given task without additional human instruction. While businesses have yet to harness AI's full potential, many have incorporated AI capabilities in customer service chat bots and online ad optimization. Cutting edge uses include analysis of medical images to improve diagnostics and financial data to prevent money laundering. AI has also crept into our daily lives. Everything from digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa to Facebook's facial recognition technology to Google Translate use AI. And, it is not hard to imagine computers being programmed to generate all forms of copyrightable content with no direct human interaction, from software code to movie scripts, to photographs. Much of this is already happening....