Shane Twentyman

I’ve been working in the field of artificial intelligence for about 40 years now, and for most of that time, ‘AI’ was seen as something of an esoteric pursuit to which no-one really paid much attention.

But everything changed almost exactly a year ago to the day when OpenAI released ChatGPT, which captured people’s imaginations across the world.

There’s a presumption that artificial intelligence means that computer programs are intelligent in their own right. This is simply not true.

AI only acts on information that it’s been given. This means there’s no real ‘intelligence’ in AI at all. Rather, AI learns from data and uses that to make predictions.

Because it does not have intelligence of its own, there are some clear examples where AI gets things wrong.