Artificial intelligence is a term that comes with a lot of baggage, thanks to popular culture. From Asimov to Westworld, machines that act and think like humans are a mainstay in science fiction.
In reality, however, there are limits to what artificial intelligence can do: machines don’t make good decisions on their own, and they’re not creative. Examples of the limitations of AI abound: Last year, for example, trolls corrupted Tay, Microsoft’s Twitter bot, so badly she had to be taken offline. This month an AI is trying (and failing) to write the first sentence of a novel.
So AI isn’t quite there yet. Enter IA, or Augmented Intelligence. Augmented intelligence doesn’t seek to imitate human consciousness. Instead, it amplifies human intelligence. You’re probably using it already: Alexa, Siri and OK Google are all IA technologies. They don’t make decisions on their own, but they improve your ability to make good decisions by offering you a connection to society’s collective memory: the Internet.
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