Artificial Intelligence Is An Engineering Problem, Not Magic!

I don't know about you, I've never been comfortable with the use of the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) by mainstream media, and the way the ubiquitous sales and marketing folk have recently begin to fling it around only add to my general angst over it all. When we talk about Artificial Intelligence, to many, this conjures up thoughts of killer robots, a dystopian future and being enslaved to mega-corporations (gulp, is that bit already here?!). Apart from all that, there is a general misconception that you need a Ph.D. to be able to use these technologies, let alone understand them. To all of the above, I simply say - balderdash good sir! balderdash! I have recently taken a deep dive into the field of AI by involving myself (yet again) in some further university study.