Will AI and machine learning bring digital utopia?

Machine learning and artificial intelligence holds the promise of smart devices and systems that will enrich our lives, but according to one ICT executive, this promise of a digital utopia is a misguided one. "We are collecting a lot more data, processing a lot more data, and inventing what many are calling smart devices. But they're not artificially intelligent, and there is a danger we're making claims for artificial intelligence giving us a utopia that we're not going to get," said Mike Hinchey, president of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). "We don't really know what intelligence is, and we're making claims that these intelligent technologies are going to do things." However, Hinchey told IoT Hub that there are companies making genuine progress in AI, and that their efforts shouldn't be discounted.