Artificial intelligence is here but the future is human
Unconscious activities and innate human "common sense" constitute a giant blind spot untouched by research
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THE lack of any coherent or precise definition of artificial intelligence (AI) encourages the same kind of hype bubbles that we have seen with "fintech" and "blockchain" - all three concepts can mean almost anything, depending on the interpretation.
The most well-known attempt to define AI, the Turing test, requires that a computer be able to fool a human into thinking that he or she is interacting with another human. As computer vision expert Filip Piekniewski in his excellent blog notes, this has caused AI research to be defined as a solution to a game where a human is the judge of success.
Hence, deep-learning algorithms that can play the game Go are deemed artificially intelligent, because they play a human-designed game better than humans; animals, however, are not considered intelligent even though they are clearly a miracle of the universe.
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