This is your regularly scheduled reminder that AI is fictional as most people understand it, and especially as AI experts and researchers understand it. Anything resembling AI as we popularly or scholarly understand the term is at least twenty years away, and always has been.
What the Marketing Division in the Syrius Cybernetics Corporation everywhere call “AI” is actually Machine Learning at best, which is basically just shoving Bayesian inference, Pattern Recognition, all of the data, and a soupçon of recursion into a sack and beating it until it starts repeating things which sound about right some of the time.
