AI: Can a Machine Ever Be Human, Convincingly Enough?

The inclusion of'learning abilities' – mostly thought unique to humans and very few other evolved primates – defines artificial intelligence to a large extent. Faced with unfamiliar situations, how the program deals with the problems and attempts to solve them is key to identifying a stretch of software code as'artificially intelligent'. Artificial Intelligence has made the leap from science fiction to real life in a short matter of time. It was initially envisioned as a panacea for the intricate but repetitive processes that aided scientific research and technological advancement – a role it has fulfilled and, in many instances, surpassed. Training a program by making it understand a variety of sensory inputs, whether in the form of digital or analog data, does not mean that program has'intelligence'.