AI Thoughts and Worries: A Metaphor - DZone AI

Often, AI is rolled up into one large, homogeneous, conceptual ball of smart, mysterious, powerful, scary technology. In reality, AI is a range of disciplines starting from the mundane and simplistic to the immensely deep and convoluted brain-like networks. Certainly, our current state of AI encompasses some manner of cleverness. There are types of cleverness, but there are also classes of intelligence that we can categorize much like we compartmentalize the types of human intelligence. Today, it is generally recognized that human intelligence can be categorized into different classes: musical, linguistic, logical-mathematical, etc. The cleverness that we witness in today's technology is a moving target.