{"588325":{"#nid":"588325","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u2018Artificial Intelligence\u2019 Has Become Meaningless","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication, wrote \u0026ldquo;\u0026lsquo;Artificial Intelligence\u0026rsquo; Has Become Meaningless\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Atlantic.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn science fiction, the promise or threat of artificial intelligence is tied to humans\u0026rsquo; relationship to conscious machines. Whether it\u0026rsquo;s Terminators or Cylons or servants like the \u0026ldquo;Star Trek\u0026rdquo; computer or the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EStar Wars\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;droids, machines warrant the name AI when they become sentient\u0026mdash;or at least self-aware enough to act with expertise, not to mention volition and surprise.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat to make, then, of the explosion of supposed-AI in media, industry, and technology? In some cases, the AI designation might be warranted, even if with some aspiration. Autonomous vehicles, for example, don\u0026rsquo;t quite measure up to R2D2 (or Hal), but they do deploy a combination of sensors, data, and computation to perform the complex work of driving. But in most cases, the systems making claims to artificial intelligence aren\u0026rsquo;t sentient, self-aware, volitional, or even surprising. They\u0026rsquo;re just software.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/03\/what-is-artificial-intelligence\/518547\/?utm_source=twb\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2017-03-06 17:04:55","changed_gmt":"2017-03-06 17:04:55","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/03\/what-is-artificial-intelligence\/518547\/?utm_source=twb","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"252091":{"id":"252091","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1502475238","gmt_changed":"2017-08-11 18:13:58","alt":"Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"226504","name":"bogost-color.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","mime":"image\/png","size":6216793,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bogost-color.png?itok=5Aa1q5ge"}}},"media_ids":["252091"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}