A 5 minute Intro to AI
AI made incredible progress in the past few years. From the first autonomous shopping carts delivering your groceries , AI-generated music that's indistinguishable from that created by humans — we’ve watched AI move into exciting new applications. Need some dinner party conversation ammo? Read on “I know what AI means... I think” Between Hollywood and your dusty stack of sci-fi novels, you’ve been given many outlandish representations of the AI of the future. But AI is already here. It’s all around us — just in humbler forms. Intelligent behavior in an autonomous agent — THIS is AI. It’s describing the brain, not the body, of intelligent machines (AI ≠ robots). The AI of today can do specific tasks (driving a car, booking meetings, picking your next Netflix binge). AI research is leading toward something more advanced: artificial general intelligence, or AGI. This AI — when a machine can do things in a way that is indistinguishable from hu...