Automation is Not Intelligence

There’s so much hype around AI that even dumb automatons are being presented as intelligence. Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes about how Automation is Not Intelligence:

The AI Hype Train has left the station. You know you’re in the middle of a hype cycle when products and companies start using a term regardless of whether or not their product incorporates any of that technology. This is where we currently are with regards to the market for AI products and services. While there is a lot of great, new innovation that’s pushing the industry forward towards more intelligent systems capable of many of the challenging areas that have previously not been able to be solved due to extreme complexity or the need for human labor, there are just as many companies who are using the term AI as more of a marketing ploy or a way to raise money.

Read more in Forbes here.