Artificial Intelligence: Meaningless Marketing Term or Game-Changing Business Tool

AI. It's a term that used to conjure up images from science fiction movies – the ones filled with machines that could think and act with human-like intelligence. In fact, for most of the last 40 or so years AI has been closely linked with things like the Turing test, that famous assessment for measuring a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to or indistinguishable from that of a human. Oh, how times have changed. That once-prestigious definition is long gone. AI is now nothing more than a marketing term used for any software application displaying even the most rudimentary intelligence.