Artificial Intelligence -- what CTOs and co need to know - Information Age

The trouble with the word artificial intelligence is the word intelligence. It misleads -- people conjure up images of thinking machines, Stephen Spielberg; Arnold Schwarzenegger coming back from the future and saying: "I'll be back." Who knows what the future may bring, but for now, and for all intents and purposes, people may be confusing intelligence and sentience. Neither are well defined -- we are supposedly sentient, machines are not, and for all we know, may never be. Intelligence means "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills". These days machines can do that, machines learn, they deep learn, they can even learn by applying neural networks -- that does not make them like people, maybe they possess one subset, of a myriad of sets, that make us who we are.