An AI Primer for mechatronics

This week I attended an "Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roundtable" of leading scientists, entrepreneurs and venture investors. As the discussion focused mainly on basic statistical techniques, I left feeling unfulfilled. My friend, Matt Turck, recently wrote that "just about every major tech company is working very actively on AI," which also means that every startup hungry for capital is purchasing a dot'ai' domain name. As the lines blur between what is and what really isn't, I feel it necessary to provide readers with a quick lens of how to view intelligent agents for mechatronics. For 65 years, The Turing Test remained unsolvable until a computer program called "Eugene Goostman" conquered it in 2014.