Why Artificial Intelligence is (Still) Human Intelligence

At its core, Artificial Intelligence and its partner Machine Learning (abbreviated as AI/ML) is math. Specifically, it's probability – the application of weighted probabilistic networks at a computational scale we've never been able to perform before, which allows the computed probabilities to become self-training. It's that characteristic more than any other that makes AI seem like wizardry. The little cylinder on the kitchen counter that suddenly lights up when you call it by name feels like something out of science fiction, but that entire process is the end product of the re-ingestion of new data to help fine-tune a highly complex probabilistic graph. The voice assistant recognizes its "name" not because it's self-aware but because it has been programmed to match an audio waveform to a database of known waveforms with certain characteristics.