Is it possible for artificial intelligence to be conscious? This topic always sparks controversy when academics and professionals debate whether, how, and when AI can regard itself as a person. We, humans, tend to anthropomorphize everything, projecting consciousness onto everything. And, in the case of AI, because of its ability to influence things that are normally human, such as vision and language, society is often driven to assign meaning to the entire experience. In an article for the Economist, cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter believes that existing AI is far from comprehending -- and provides numerous examples.

Machine Learning algorithms learn from data. They find relationships, develop understanding, make decisions, and evaluate their confidence from the training data they're given, and also, the better the training data is, the higher the model performs. The standard and quantity of your machine learning training data have the maximum amount to do with the success of your data project as the algorithms themselves. Firstly, it's important to possess a standard understanding of what we mean by the term dataset. The definition of a dataset is that it's both rows and columns, with each row containing one observation.

What do you think when you hear the words'artificial intelligence?' Robots? Do images of a world that looks less human flash across your mind? Before you panic, know this. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is much more than the idea of pending doom. Defined as"intelligence displayed by machines, in contrast with the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals," AI is simply another means to improve the way that we, as a society, address some of the biggest challenges we face.

Imagine you have the chance to bring back someone you love. Someone you never thought you'd see again. But the only way you can do this is by implanting memories into a bot designed to look and speak like that person, designed to help you cope as your own memories fade away. And which memories would you opt to keep … and or forget? These are just a few of the questions raised by Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, Marjorie Prime, a fascinating and deeply human meditation on life, loss, memory, and how technology interweaves itself between all three.