Understanding Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is such a buzz word these days and one thing about buzz words is… 'They often get lost in translation'. Ask any Data Scientist (including yours truly) about AI, and you're likely to hear Machine Learning (ML) algorithms or Deep learning (DL) and its fantastic applications, such as in AlphaGo… Where the Neural network learned through reinforcement learning, defeated the Go world champion, making AlphaGo arguably the strongest Go player in history… These are all applicable responses. But I think it's time we all take a deep breath, exhale, pause… And realize that AI is a well-founded discipline in its own right. Machine Learning and Deep Learning do not define Artificial Intelligence. To answer this question we must consider the four historical approaches to AI.