How to talk AI like an expert

The term AI/ML has become exceptionally popular but what exactly to the experts mean they refer to AI/ML? "AI/ML" is a field in computer science which tries to use computers to solve problems that were previously only "solvable" by humans. For years, computers excelled at number crunching but certain tasks, such as voice recognition (hearing), object recognition in photos (vision) and predicting behaviour of agents in unconstrained or uncertain environments, remained a challenge for programmers to overcome. These days, computer algorithms can perform as well or better than humans on a few narrow tasks that typically take a human between 0 and 3 seconds (rule of thumb) to perform. These tasks are usually perception tasks that don't require deep, abstract thought by the human brain. Of course, there are contradictions to this rule of thumb.