Will artificial intelligence ever rival human thinking?
The narrowness of AI will someday be replaced by artificial general intelligence. But will it have the capability to rival human intelligence and creativity? Some of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, at least the ones the public hear about, are famous for beating human players at chess or poker. Other algorithms are known for their ability to learn how to recognize cats or their inability to recognize people with darker skin. But are current AI systems anything more than toys? Sure, their ability to play games or identify animals is impressive, but does this help toward creating useful AI systems? To answer this, we need to take a step back and question what the goals of AI are. AI tries to predict the future by analyzing the past The fundamental idea behind AI is simple: To analyze patterns from the past to make accurate predictions about the future. This idea underlies every algorithm, from Google showing you adverts of what it predicts you want to ...