Why AI Works – Artificial Understanding

Interest in Artificial Intelligence is exploding, and for good reasons. Computers in cars, phone apps, and on the web can do amazing things that we simply could not do before 2012. This is an attempt to explain the current state of AI to a general audience without using mathematics, computer science, or neuroscience; discussions at these levels would focus on how AI works. Here I will discuss this at the level of Epistemology and will try to explain why it works. "Epistemology" sounds scary, but it really isn't. It's mostly scary because it is unknown; it is not taught in schools anymore.