Artificial intelligence and its partner, machine learning, are defined in Wikipedia as “any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.”
As I was preparing this commentary, I took a few minutes to remember the times I had used AI in the past week. I thought of several web searches on my computer, use of the GPS in my phone (which gave me three alternative routes to an unfamiliar destination, including an estimate of the time in minutes required with each route), a few shows I was directed to on Netflix, a couple of