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RE: From Data Mining - to - Knowledge Discovery - to - Artificial Intelligence
Good post.
I think the term artificial intelligence is used a bit too easily these days. I see the main characteristic of intelligence as the capability to adapt to new situations.
Most software algorithms declared as artificial intelligence are good at solving very specific problems using massive amount of data but I'm not sure that qualifies for classifying this as true intelligence.
Of course human intelligence is often tied to human consciousness and consciousness is a very hard thing to define.
Thanks @irelandscape for the intelligent comment. Basically, there are two types of Artificial Intelligence: General Artificial Intelligence and Narrow Intelligence. Just like you said, the reason why Artificial Intelligence was created is to create an agent which mimics and carries human intelligence in every sense, in carrying out various tasks and that is what General Artificial Intelligence is all about, though we are yet to create such, what we are currently calling AI is Narrow Intelligence.