The Artificial In Intelligence

Quartz recently published an article on the scope of what we mean when we say Artificial Intelligence. You may read it here, but broadly there are two schools of thought. There are the generalists who define the term broadly & these include systems such as Siri & many other such personal assistants. In this broad definition, as long as a system uses an AI component, understands commands & completes tasks, it qualifies as AI. Then there are the literalists. This group cares much more about the architecture of the system in that it should be one end-to-end computational unit.