Why 'artificial intelligence' is still just a marketing buzzword
Investors’ demand for stocks of companies touting “Artificial Intelligence” accounts for all the US stock market gains this year. “AI is a machine’s ability to perform the cognitive functions we associate with human minds, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, interacting with an environment, problem solving, and even exercising creativity,” kvells McKinsey and Company, the management firm whose high-paid consultants who have finessed the destruction of whole sectors of the economy and eased the paths of authoritarian regimes worldwide. It sounds a lot better to say you want “artificial intelligence” to land the plane than that you’re prepared to let autocomplete take the wheel. Seventy years on, "artificial intelligence" is just a marketing buzzword and you're doing the tech companies’ promotions for them when you use it uncritically.
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