AI Is Not Real: How Intelligent Is Artificial Intelligence? | Technology - International Business Times

Hercules Reyes, International Business Times summarizes, Despite its popularity both in consumer technology and in popular fiction, experts believe that AI is not real.

Robots are already widely used in Japan -- from cooking noodles to helping patients with physiotherapy
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This is the bold statement that Scientific American gave regarding the matter. In their recent statement, they claimed that what people call nowadays as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not actually AI, but something else entirely.

Sure, we hear the description of AI branded on almost every new tech nowadays. Even on smartphones, companies now love to call their camera technology as something powered by AI. 

But experts are agreeing that there is no real AI yet, or at least not in the sense that most of us know and in the sense that popular fiction has portrayed so far...

Experts believe that AI, as we know it now, is simply automation. It is simply a set preprocess that are programmed to be executed in a specific time or a specific trigger. Imagine a factory full of workers with different tasks. Now, an automated system will have machines do all these supposed human tasks in the same manner and maybe even faster. This is not AI, but rather, just automation.
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Source: International Business Times