[miniTAX]

“A computer program does exactly what the instructions tell it to do.”

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AI is based on neural networks and learning. AI can be trained to give cancer treatment plans then retrained for facial recognition without writing a single program line.
So AI can be crappy (for now), but it’s technically false to say that it’s just “a computer program doing what the it is told to do”.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

I was waiting for someone to clear up the “programming” nonsense as I read down the thread, reading comments from people that know nothing of AI, neural networks, reinforced learning, AlphaZero, LelaChess, etc.
Bottom line is that the progress in Non-Watson AI has been astounding. However, there can be failures, just as there are for humans. It’s just that when AI fails, stories come out that play on fears.