Artificial Intelligence Is Coming. What Should We Teach? - Market Brief

Did you also see the video of the robot opening a door? Did you freak out and think: if they can open doors…what will they learn next? People see a robot do something that looks intelligent and the natural instinct is to extrapolate and assume that there is a general intelligence behind the action. In reality, the set of tasks that robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) more generally are good at right now is constrained by very narrow parameters. Think about the game of chess (or more recently, the Chinese game of Go).