I’m not entirely confident in the marketing, PR and hype surrounding the notional “Intelligence” characterised in emerging contemporary applications and technologies. The kinds of sophistication and mental processing (on a spectrum towards consciousness and self-awareness) constitutive of authentic intelligence appears to be anything other than what is being achieved by these narrowly defined intelligent machines and algorithmic processes. It may only be a matter of time until Artificial General Intelligence actually arrives but I think we would do well to differentiate clearly between cleverly-programmed data processing applications, adaptive robotics or other relatively narrowly defined cybernetic regulatory systems and actual intelligence.

In the AI Age, “Being Smart” Will Mean Something Completely Different