What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
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Summary
Artificial intelligence (AI) powers driverless car research, helps spot diseases, enables voice-activated consumer devices, and lets people unlock their phones with their faces.
AI’s current boom is thanks to breakthroughs in machine learning, particularly a technique called deep learning, which involves training computers with examples, not programming them.
However, AI has been criticized for potentially augmenting human problems such as racism and sexism, as well as using large amounts of energy.
There is concern that AI could harm workers by competing with them instead of augmenting their strengths.
Nonetheless, AI has many beneficial applications and could improve, or even extend, people’s lives.