But is it really Artificial Intelligence or is just the production of logic algorithms based on data? I guess it comes down to what the definition of intelligence is. Arriving at totally new concepts from directions not pointed to by data or by conventional logic seems to me to be more the definition of intelligence. Having said that AI does present some spectacular results that would be impossible any other way. I think of it as data mining on steroids. But back to the original question. What I fear most is that a significant number of people will embrace it as a doctrine to the exclusion of all else. Believing what AI produces as fact is very very dangerous, but that seems to be where this technology is leading us. I remember years ago reading research on what was originally called "beam robots". Basically the premise was that if an organism (in this case a mechanical robot) was constrained to a finite set number of random movements then given enough time it could be said the robot has memory. It is a strange concept. But look for beam robots now and you find lots of information but it has diverged completely from the original concept. It was one of those concepts that was really hard to understand so the "new" proponents decided/changed the concept to something entirely different, but much easier to work with. AI seems to be doing that. If this is the case, should it become mainstream, then I think we will lose the advantage of intelligence. That is truly dreadful. (actually if you have to teach your AI any more than fundamentals then it is just learning by Data mining, its not intelligent)