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Not everything we call AI is actually 'artificial intelligence'. Here's what you need to know

  • Written by: George Siemens, Co-Director, Professor, Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning, University of South Australia
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In August 1955, a group of scientists made a funding request for US$13,500 to host a summer workshop at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The field they proposed to explore was artificial intelligence (AI).

While the funding request was humble, the conjecture of the researchers was not: “every aspect of learning or any...

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