The Artificial Intelligence in Your Daily Life

I find the buzzword business quite frustrating sometimes. It seems to enjoy messing with meanings and having me gasping over its grammar. At first glance, artificial intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Intelligence is, after all a human ability to acquire, process, and apply knowledge and skills to situations, and so move the frontiers of knowledge outward. If it were artificial, surely we would still be sitting up in trees and eating chestnuts.