Artificial Intelligence is an Umbrella Term - Don't Be Misled - DATAVERSITY

Michael Schmidt recently wrote in TechCrunch, "Artificial intelligence. But despite all the talk around AI, no one seems to really understand what it is or how companies can use it… Many people think of AI as the blending of humans and machines. They're not far off, but AI is an incredibly broad term -- more of an umbrella term, really -- that simply means making computers act intelligently. It is one of the major fields of study in computer science and encompasses subfields such as robotics, machine learning, expert systems, general intelligence and natural language processing." Schmidt goes on, "Apple's Siri, Google's self-driving cars and Facebook's image recognition software are standard examples of AI. While these applications are all powered very differently and achieve different goals, they all roll up into the umbrella term of artificial intelligence."