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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."

However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …

Hannah Fry: ditch 'crap science' and get real about what AI can do - Raconteur

#artificialintelligenceOct-15-2021, 02:55:16 GMT

Hannah Fry is getting exercised about a domestic appliance. The refrigerator in question was in perfect working order, but "it had a sticker on it that said: 'This fridge is AI ready.' I just don't know what on Earth that means." If she can't understand that claim, there won't be many people who can. Fry, a professor in the mathematics of cities at University College London, is a seasoned public speaker and broadcaster who won the prestigious Zeeman Medal in 2018 in recognition of her work to improve the public's understanding of maths.

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