AI is not as smart as you think

You can rest easy; superintelligent artificial intelligence like HAL 3000 and the Terminator will forever remain fiction. Speaking at a recent artificial intelligence seminar, Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo, research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, said AI will never think for itself. "There are lots of very good sci-fi movies to watch on a Friday night," she said. "But there is not a shred of proper research that supports the idea that AI can become sentient. "This is technology that behaves as if it were intelligent, but that is nothing to do with creating or deducing.