Jean Piaget famously wrote “Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do“. That’s of course quite a far cry from the supporters of Intelligence Quotient tests (intelligence is what is measured by the test). It is also quite far removed from the capabilities of what we call today ‘Artificial Intelligence’.
The most common approaches to AI today is machine learning. The machine is exposed to thousands of test pictures or events and learns to distinguish observations. Of course, this approach does not really prepare the machine to deal with unexpected circumstances. In that respect the machine is not really intelligent.
Maybe Artificial Intelligence is not really the right way to describe the capabilities of those machines. Their processing capability is tremendously superior to humans, but they are not intelligent. Yet.
