Big Data and Artificial Intelligence from the Cynic

A purposely vague term, referring to an ever-growing set of tools and techniques, that are said to do stuff that people usually do, only better. AI programs have advanced from early victories in playing checkers to wins against chess masters. They have finally achieved the pinnacle of human intelligence, winning the game show Jeopardy. After decades of marching from success to success, today's leaders of Artificial Intelligence anticipate that practical applications of the technology are certain to emerge. If not, they threaten to further inflate the definition of Artificial Intelligence to encompass normal computer programs written by ordinary human beings, at which point success will be theirs -- since a computer program is, without doubt, artificial.