Artificial Intelligence and reality

By Gordon Rugg

There’s a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the moment, usually framed in either/or terms. For anyone who worked with AI in the 1980s, this is depressingly familiar.

The brief version is that yes, AI will bring massive changes in some areas but not in the ways that most people are claiming, and no, it won’t bring massive changes in others that most people are worried about, and by the way, there are a lot of really useful things that it could be doing, but that have been marginalised or ignored or unknown for over forty years.

So, what’s the reality about AI?

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