How Smart is Artificial Intelligence?

A recent article challenges the humanization of AI and machine learning; let’s reconsider comparisons with human abilities

MIT IDE
MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
6 min readFeb 7, 2020

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By Irving Wladawsky-Berger

“We speak of machines that think, learn, and infer. The name of the discipline itself — artificial intelligence — practically dares us to…

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MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

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