Letters: Not one-trick ponies

AI works on the principle of "seeing, sifting, analysing and learning from big data" which machines can indeed perform much faster than the human brain

Apropos of the captioned Bloomberg report by Leonid Bershidsky (December 6) the learned writer is missing a very important point. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are certainly not a “one-trick pony” as Bershidsky would have us believe! AI is a tool — admittedly still a “work in progress” and likely to remain so for a very long time as it is based on the concept of “constant learning” — that has the potential to go way ahead of “human capabilities”. Even though one would wish for “machines” never to become our masters, I’m afraid AI might well make that scenario a