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“Will AI Hack me?” and other questions I get asked at the dinner table
A software engineer answers common questions about AI and how to leverage it for your small business
Almost every dinner, lunch or random conversation I have these days ends up circling back to AI somehow.
I am a software engineer so to my friends and family, I’ve become the unofficial spokesperson for the mysteries of artificial intelligence. Here are the questions they often ask me, and my answers.
Starting off strong with 1. “What is AI?”
This one is one of my favorite questions because it’s a great opportunity to break things down to the basics. AI has become something maybe people interact with daily. But there is still much more to it than just typing into chatGPT. I find it’s always good to brush up on the basic definitions of terms before having a full discussion about it — in my experience it can avoid arguments/confusion down the line.
AI, or artificial intelligence, is not a new concept or term.
In fact, the word was ‘coined’ at a workshop at Dartmouth college in 1956; and even earlier in…
