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Artificial Intelligence — the honest version
AI is software that performs tasks that seem to require human intelligence — recognising faces, translating languages, playing chess, writing essays, driving cars.
But modern AI isn't really 'thinking' — it's pattern matching on massive amounts of data. It can appear smart while not *understanding* anything the way humans do.
Whenever you hear 'AI', ask: what data was it trained on, and what exactly does it predict?