AI is, indeed, artificial. A giant database for which programmers write algorithms to string one event after another in what they believe to be "normal human" fashion and allow the program to "learn" by rote. It's an interesting curiosity which takes massive amounts of time and electricity to create with no discernable purpose other than experimentation. As such, it's interesting and may eventually be something worthwhile.Cheating at chess (or Jeopardy) by being able to cram days worth of decision making into a few seconds, or opening reply letters with phrases such as "your letter certainly takes the cake in..." are not really earth-shattering advances in machine intelligence. They are baby steps towards an idea which may or may not be achievable. The big question is, "Is it really worth it?"I don't think so, except in the context of manufacturing and some other business, which is what it's mostly about. Of course, that end is much more prosaic, so we get big stories about the supposed "intelligence" of it all when it's really just another tool.

AI is, indeed, artificial. A giant database for which programmers write algorithms to string one event after another in what they believe to be "normal human" fashion and allow the program to "learn" by rote. It's an interesting curiosity which takes massive amounts of time and electricity to create with no discernable purpose other than experimentation. As such, it's interesting and may eventually be something worthwhile.Cheating at chess (or Jeopardy) by being able to cram days worth of decision making into a few seconds, or opening reply letters with phrases such as "your letter certainly takes the cake in..." are not really earth-shattering advances in machine intelligence. They are baby steps towards an idea which may or may not be achievable. The big question is, "Is it really worth it?"I don't think so, except in the context of manufacturing and some other business, which is what it's mostly about. Of course, that end is much more prosaic, so we get big stories about the supposed "intelligence" of it all when it's really just another tool.

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