What Exactly is Artificial Intelligence and Why is it Driving me Crazy

Summary: Advanced analytic platform developers, cloud providers, and the popular press are promoting the idea that everything we do in data science is AI. That may be good for messaging but it's misleading to the folks who are asking us for AI solutions and makes our life all the more difficult. Houston we have (another) problem. It's the definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and specifically what's included and what isn't. The problem becomes especially severe if you know something about the field (i.e.