Five Common Misconceptions about Artificial Intelligence

The staggering interest in AI has come to the surface (again) in 2022 with the great success of systems like ChatGPT for a general-purpose chatbot assistant, and DALLE-2 for image generation from text descriptions (as the image above). With this wide mainstream adoption of AI, it's very important to clarify these 5 common misconceptions about AI. Contrary to popular belief, artificial intelligence is not a new technology. It has been in development for over 70 years, beginning in the mid-20th century. There have been several AI "winters," where funding and interest in the field dwindled, but the success of deep learning has helped to revitalize the field.