Are We Using the Term Artificial Intelligence Accurately?

Great musing, Steve. I have been thinking a lot about this as well. I did a short video on it just yesterday as a matter of fact, throwing out there the idea that machines are only as smart as the information we provide it. That additionally computers are not able to artificially intelligently process there way to a solution, they merely sort through all of the data and research humans provide them. Anyhow, very interesting conversation and if you are interested in my short take the link is https://youtu.be/vfxm9NQ4xfA Have a great Wednesday!

No of course not. Machines currently only have the ability to 'learn' to recognize patterns in a fairly narrow setting. Whilst they can do this as well and better than humans in some domains, they cannot yet generalise or understand what it is they have learnt. Perhaps the term 'Artificial Emergent Intelligence' is more apt. If our brains evolved soley from the advantage confered by being able to make sense of the stimulous being provided from a simple light sensitive proto-eye then that is probably roughly where they are at. I guess the big question is whether, without natural competition or a survival imperative, their still very limited, ability to self generate code will act as the equivalent of random genetic modification / mutation only at a possibly faster pace than our own.

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Hi Steve! In my opinion the term Artificial Intelligence is a very broad term that could include a number of technologies including machine learning. Is it misused? Oh yes, particularly in marketing materials but no more so in insurance than any other industry. The key is, if you want to know more about what is being referred to as AI, you have to dig deeper - ask questions.