Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, released an essay on Sept. 23 proclaiming the arrival of the “Intelligence Age.” In it, he claimed that humanity would see exponential advancement through artificial intelligence including “fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics – will eventually become commonplace.” Many criticized his statements as the usual pie-in-the-sky ideas that have been coming out of Silicon Valley for years. But there are already several areas of study and scientific development where AI is playing an …