Not everything we call AI is actually 'artificial intelligence'. Here's what you need to know

In August 1955, a group of scientists made a funding request for US$13,500 to host a summer workshop at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The field they proposed to explore was artificial intelligence (AI). While the funding request was humble, the conjecture of the researchers was not: "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it". Since these humble beginnings, movies and media have romanticized AI or cast it as a villain. Yet for most people, AI has remained as a point of discussion and not part of a conscious lived experience.