The genetics revolution is generating such a gigantic glut of information that artificial intelligence may be the only way scientists will ever put it to practical use. Inspired by an AI effort to record all of the common-sense knowledge shared among humans called Cyc, scientists have come up with a technology that can gather all of the information scientists know about an organism.
The success of efforts to map the human genome is driving the development of a new industry, bioinformatics, which in turn is driving the future of advanced computing.