The Future of AI is Open [Advertiser content from IBM]

(bright music) - [Narrator] Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1440, but his innovation wasn't creating new technology.

His new machine combined existing print block technology from East Asia and mechanical devices first developed by the Romans for making wine and olive oil.

Moreover, his innovation launched just as literacy rates were on the rise.

Those events ignited an unparalleled age of scientific discovery, empowering people to share ideas and information farther and faster.

Textbooks, newspapers, and even the internet have their roots in Gutenberg's printing press, but even he couldn't have imagined the legacy his inventions would leave, for better or worse.

Today, businesses are primed for advancements in AI to improve how we work, live, learn, and connect, so what can society learn from the genesis of Gutenberg's press as AI makes its mark on the future?