Most of us interact with artificial intelligence (AI) on a daily basis, whether we realize it or not. Every time you ask Alexa or Siri a question or turn to Google to settle a bar bet on who owns the National Football League’s record for most career touchdowns (the answer, by the way, is Jerry Rice), you’re using AI.
In the business world, AI is ubiquitous. From AI bots that can identify, evaluate, and make recommendations for streamlining business processes to cybersecurity systems that continuously monitor data input patterns in order to thwart cyberattacks, AI repeatedly has demonstrated its capacity for processing and analyzing reams of data faster and more accurately than a human ever could.
While there can be little doubt that AI has proved to be a highly valuable and effective tool, today’s AI falls short in a number of basic tasks any child could perform. Does today’s AI really comprehend what it is doing when it performs these various tasks? Put another way, is artificial intelligence really intelligent?
The answer, at least right now, is no. While its accomplishments to date are impressive, the AI most of us experience is more like a powerful method of statistical analysis than a real form of intelligence. So while AI gives the illusion that it “knows” what is happening when it attempts to perform a given task, in reality, it achieves that task because it has been fed immense amounts of data pertaining to the task.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/12/your-ai-doesnt-really-understand-you/?sh=1c375bf07a3c
In the business world, AI is ubiquitous. From AI bots that can identify, evaluate, and make recommendations for streamlining business processes to cybersecurity systems that continuously monitor data input patterns in order to thwart cyberattacks, AI repeatedly has demonstrated its capacity for processing and analyzing reams of data faster and more accurately than a human ever could.
While there can be little doubt that AI has proved to be a highly valuable and effective tool, today’s AI falls short in a number of basic tasks any child could perform. Does today’s AI really comprehend what it is doing when it performs these various tasks? Put another way, is artificial intelligence really intelligent?
The answer, at least right now, is no. While its accomplishments to date are impressive, the AI most of us experience is more like a powerful method of statistical analysis than a real form of intelligence. So while AI gives the illusion that it “knows” what is happening when it attempts to perform a given task, in reality, it achieves that task because it has been fed immense amounts of data pertaining to the task.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/12/your-ai-doesnt-really-understand-you/?sh=1c375bf07a3c
