Why AI Is More Artificial Than Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI), sometimes more appropriately referred to as Machine Learning (ML) swoops in as yet another fashionable attribute used by burgeoning startups to raise money in Silicon Valley. A long list of hasty and hollow monikers alone should give a critical bystander, and many a venture capitalist, enough pause to question its foundational premonition. But let's say you haven't experienced the damaging socio-economic impact from the snake-oil promises by technology just yet, and still believe social media – err, socialism – is actually good for humanity, and with unfettered positivity, you are intent on believing and accepting computers best someday rule us. For you, this missive is a stern warning of evolutionary discourse. First off, there is no doubt specific laborious and dangerous activities performed by humans may be helped by machines, first with the assistance of rudimentary tools, then automated machines, then machines with more sensors to decide on a better and dynamic course of action.