Decoding AI

Everywhere you look people seem to be talking about one thing. Well, I mean apart from Donald Trump and his disturbingly entertaining antics. And that’s AI. There are those that can’t contain their excitement (‘Yo, AI is going to change the world!’). There are those that are uncertain (‘We really don’t yet fully understand the impact AI would have on everything’). And finally, those that have declared apocalypse is upon us (‘AI will eat up humanity. Prepare to perish!’). It has in fact become a much abused term, being used out of context and often erroneously for a lot of things.