Ashok Goel, a professor at Georgia Tech, made the news this week with the revelation that one of the teaching assistants that he used in his artificial intelligence course was actually an ”AI.” Now, I have no reason to believe that Goel was trying to do something wrongheaded. I think he was just playing around. But the media love AI stories these days and have yet again led the public on a very wrong-headed journey about what AI is and what it can be.
