Building Ethical Artificial Intelligence – The Markup

As computers get more powerful, we are increasingly using them to make predictions. The software that makes these predictions is often called artificial intelligence. It's interesting that we call it "intelligence," because other tasks we assign to computers--computing huge numbers, running complex simulations--are also things that we label as "intelligence" when humans do them. For instance, my kids are graded on their intelligence at school based on their ability to do complex mathematical calculations. When we let computers project into the future and make their own decisions about what step to take next--what chess move to make, what driving route to suggest--we seem to want to call it artificial intelligence.