What Artificial Intelligence Can Really Teach Us

Ahmed Muneeb
The Startup
Published in
6 min readDec 16, 2017

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Source: Financial Express

Much has been made about the rise of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and the effects it has on our society.

So far, lately with its explosion especially throughout the last 5 years — it has been used a political weapon designed to really scare peers, constituents and even go so far as to generate animosity, fear and ignorance.

A.I. is real and will continue to grow as it moves to harness and leverage its own power in numerous industries. We are facing it every single day in our lives within the current smartphone era.

The most notable A.I. interaction the mass market had faced? Saying hello to our friend — Apple Inc.’s Siri dating back to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone to the world back in 2007. Although it seemed like an afterthought, that introduction was the beginning of the mass movement within A.I. and Deep Learning.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (A.I., otherwise known as Machine Intelligence), is, as the name suggests: intelligence that is displayed by machines in comparison to our known, natural intelligence — intelligence displayed by humans and other animals.

From its root dating back to the summer of 1956 in Dartmouth College, the term “Artificial Intelligence” was coined by a group…

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Ahmed Muneeb
The Startup

Sr. Mgmt Consultant @ InfosysConsulting. Writer. Contributor on @thestartup_, @TheAscentPub, @thrive, and @thoughtcatalog. 2M+ views and counting. Views my own.