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AI: The most misleading compound noun known to man (and machine)

Chris Moran, Head of Content at Viola Communications, writes on the semantics behind AI and how the term can be misleading.

Chris Moran, Head of Content at Viola Communications, writes on the semantics behind AI and how the term can be misleading.

Ten-out-of-ten to whoever it was that coined the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’, in the sense of a machine being able to demonstrate sentience.

Less than a generation ago, this kind of speculative vision of how the future may turn out was exclusively reserved for science fiction authors and film-makers (see Rossum’s Universal Robots, Terminator, Blade Runner, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Star Wars, I Robot, Lost in Space et al.), but now, it’s impossible to go a single day without


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