The Secret to Building AI? Quantify.

Despite what the phrase "artificial intelligence" seems to imply, machines do not "think," as discussed at length in a previous article. However, computers do have a useful machine equivalent to "thinking" and that is math. One way humans think is with math, while the only way computers think is with math. Bits are binary, assembly language is based on mathematical logic and everything from regressions to neural networks is based on mathematical foundations. All of computer science is applied mathematics and Artificial Intelligence is no different.