An article from the World Economic Forum website says that “Broadly speaking, artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of study and type of technology characterised by the development and use of machines that are capable of performing tasks that usually would have required human intelligence.” (Feingold, 2023). However, it then goes on to say “AI is not intelligence—it is prediction. With large language models, we’ve seen an increase in the machine’s ability to accurately predict and execute a desired outcome. But it would be a mistake to equate this to human intelligence.” (Feingold, 2023).
At a talk at the Architecture Librarians conference (ARCLIB) 2023, a speaker presented a range of definitions from different sources, but what they all had in common was the agreement that AI imitates human intelligence, doing tasks that would normally require human intelligence (Cox, 2023).
