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We see huge confusion around AI today. There is so much hype around AI, you know, especially in the market. If you want to sell something to people today, you call it AI. So everything now becomes AI, and then people don’t understand. So what is it?
And if you think, let’s say, about somebody trying to sell you a coffee machine, and they tell you this is an AI coffee machine. How do you know what it means and whether it’s true? Not every automatic machine is an AI. If you press a button, let’s say for espresso, and the machine provides you with a cup of espresso, this is not AI. It simply follows the preprogrammed orders of its human creators. So it’s an automatic machine, it’s not an AI.
The hallmark of AI, what makes AI AI is that it is able to learn and change by itself and come up with decisions and ideas that we don’t anticipate, can’t anticipate. So if you approach the coffee machine and the coffee machine, before you press any button, tells you, “Hi, hello, I’ve been watching you for the last month, and based on all the information I gathered on you and on many other users, and based on the time of day and your facial expression or whatever, I predict that you now want an espresso, so I took the liberty to already prepare for you a cup of espresso.” This is an AI. And if now it goes a step further and says, “I actually invented a new drink that you’ve never tasted before, I call it ‘bespresso.’ I also took the liberty to prepare it for you because I think you would like it.” This is an AI coffee machine.