7 Common Misconceptions About Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a field that has captivated our imagination for decades. However, the field has had a rocky past with several periods of reduced research funding because of failure to deliver on grandiose expectations. Now, once again, the field is garnering significant attention as technology giants invest billions into promising new AI research that seeks to build intelligent machines based on an understanding of how cognition works in the human brain. Yet major misconceptions about AI still persist among the general public, as well as within academia and the technology industry. We sought to clear up some of these misconceptions about AI below.