{"id":255,"date":"2021-07-25T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphonsedevasia.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T06:34:25","slug":"the-rise-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphonsedevasia.com\/blog\/the-rise-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s an AI revolution sweeping across the world. Yet few people know the real story about where this technology came from and why it suddenly took off. 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