AI is all around us and we interact with it everyday in ways that we might not even realise. But still our concept of artificial intelligence often sits on two extremes. It oscillates between the subservient home-help robot of Rocky IV and the sentient and destructive robotics of the Terminator universe. Our real experiences show the home-help type of AI to still display frustrating short-comings (though who can be too critical of the ways in which our laziness is enabled?) and our fear that AI will one day turn on the human race arises surely from a subconscious guilt that there is plenty to justify a clear-thinking outsider being moved to quickly see us as the problem.
We discuss what AI can and cannot do -and just how sure we are of these distinctions- and also what AI can do for us.
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