Believe me, we should be taking them seriously.Ĭommon sense is something that we've thought of as being a fairly sophisticated function, a way of distilling down the otherwise unfathomable complexity and intricacy of the world into something we can manage almost intuitively. I think it's right and significant, and it lets us take these programs seriously. I think there's a better descriptor for what these programs do: Artificial Common Sense. (What are those promoters going to do when we get genuine AI? Call it AIFRTTH-Artificial Intelligence, For Real This Time, Honestly? Maybe that's the first question we should ask real AI, if we ever get it.) But Artificial Intelligence? Nah, I don't think so. They're popping up all over, and they do amazing things.

Now it's been degraded to refer to any system that uses one of the deep learning networks (there are many different flavors of those) to learn how to do a sophisticated task. The ultimate goal may be (trans)human level, but it's gradable down-you could have parrot-level AI, or cat-level or even goldfish-level (currently, we've reached the some-but-not-all-insects level of AI). I am irritated by the success that corporate/marketing droids have had in co-opting the term 'A.I.' That stands for 'artificial intelligence,' and has, in the past, commonly meant some kind of general intelligence that deals with the real world in all its perplexity. It'll just take me a bit to get us there. Please bear with me, Faithful Readers.this is a photography column.

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