My two cents about this "ai" topic.
I'm a software developer and terms like "artificial intelligence" "deep learning" "machine learning" and so on, are really, really abused.
Don't forget that all that words are simply what is always existed from the beginning of the computer era, that is: something, some software procedure, written by more or less valid or even genius programmer/engineers, and this software leverage on a certain kind of hardware.
Nothing more than that: are software, ok very complex software, written by people who leverage on scientific knowledge that is already spread into many other disciplines.
A "learning software" is nothing more than a very complex software that follow a predetermined path (complete path) to achieve a wanted result.
The grate power today is that now we can run these kind of software on very capable hardware, very powerful.
No magic behind, no special or "intelligent" things.
But always the same old story: people who try to solve real problems using a computer programming language.
When I see or use a very complex software that give me the "illusion" of some sort of "intelligence" my first tough always goes to the smart people who created it.
They are "smart" "intelligent" "learning".
They, not the machine, the piece of metal.
Let's take the example of Alexa or Siri or other smart "services".
When I say "Hey siri, bla bla bla..." the real truth is that Im' talking indirectly to all the people that engineered that comple software and I say them: "Hey people who are listening, con you help me?"
This is the real fact of the matter.
Great software, complex software on super powerful hardware, created by very smart and capable people who work and strive to create these kind of things.
Have a nice day.
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