What Is Artificial Intelligence? I Can't Define It, But I Know It When I See It - Craig Roth

When considering how to draw the line between whether an application is AI or not, I'm tempted to paraphrase U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart: I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of applications I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description "artificial intelligence", and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it. A machine developing its own concept of what a "cat" is and learning to detect it in videos feels like AI to me. Although the more I read about it and understand it the more it just feels like a clever use of deep learning, creating a mathematical construct that is fit for purpose. It's like magic: when the trick is revealed I can still be impressed, but it doesn't feel like magic anymore.