While AI can extrapolate information, it won't ever be smarter than a person. Explainer Series

This shorter 'explainer' attempts to demistfy the complexities of AI, moreover to answer the question Will AI be smarter than an actual person?- spoiler - No it wont.

In one of the opening posts I looked briefly at how AI is constructed.

As time has progressed I’ve attended many a debate, panel, conference and conversation on AI related health or digital media.
One of the profound things that occured to me was this strange idea that many people, some of them in very senior levels or managing companies, thought that AI will eventually, or already is smarter than a human being.

I disagree. To explain why, lets look at what’s, what.

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What is AI?

After following set loops, and programming, AI is mimicking behavioral patterns- like a human - on a set of data that it has been fed, going beyond or filling the gaps of it’s conditional logic or programming.

What is Machine Learning?

Also refered to as ML, Machine Learning sits ‘within AI’ it is the bulk of the data
extrapolating useful information, training data sets, identifying correlations, and most importantly removing complex rules. ML is important in AI because this is th…