Definitions – what AI is and is not
In 1950, a mathematician and World War II war hero named Alan Turing asked a simple question in his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and that question was, Can machines think? Today, we’re still grappling with that same question. Perhaps more so now that we have accessible, powerful large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude to blur the lines. Depending on who you ask, AI can be many things. Many maps exist on the internet to define the broad categories of AI, from expert systems used in healthcare and finance to simpler forms of ML to more advanced models like neural networks. As we continue with this chapter, we will cover many of these facets of AI, particularly those that apply to products emerging in the market today. For the purposes of applied AI in products across industries, in this book, we will focus primarily on various applications of ML and DL models because these are often used in production anywhere...
