Why deep neural networks don't actually think – Shallow Thoughts about Deep Learning – Medium

It's 2019 now and we have machines that can But the one thing that machines fail to do is…. Magazines continue to draw a link between human and artificial intelligence which blurs our common understanding of what's capable. Headlines continue to allude to the "fact" that machines "think" or are somehow imbued with the ability to act in a sentient manner. We continue to conjure up images of "Rosy" from the Jetsons or even HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey." It's a lot more fun to think of robots that can think than to realize the cold hard truth that they (currently) can't. It may seem like semantics, but let's delve into how the basic mechanisms of these artificially "intelligent" systems work.