Often, artificial intelligence (AI) is used broadly to describe all types of systems that seem to make decisions we do not quite understand. But while many reasonably complex systems make decisions like this, it does not immediately make them "intelligent." For example, I might not understand how my "smart" oven thermometer seems to know when my roast beef will be perfectly done, or how my garden light knows when to turn on, but the engineers putting together the (not-too-complex) mathematical equation do. There are many other systems that, at first glance, look intelligent--but they are just constructed by smart people. We should not label these as "intelligent" because that suggests they are making their own decisions instead of simply following a human-designed path. A better way to distinguish (artificially) intelligent systems from those that just follow human-made rules is to look for the person who can explain the systems' inner workings (i.e., the person ultimately responsible for what the systems do).

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