What is Artificial Intelligence?
Episode 1 — with Prisilia Mbuy
Press play to listen to episode one of You and AICogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. — Renee Descartes
Our personhood is tethered to our ability to think and our capacity for intelligent behaviour. Language, inference, perception, collaboration, deduction, and emotion are what it means to be human.
It is no surprise that the advancements in Artificial Intelligence raise so many questions. Some are existential, and others concern the use of this new technology, its challenges, and implications.
Your questions about AI deserve answers.
That is why we, S.I. Ohumu and Mohineet Kaur, have made a podcast. It’s called You and AI. The goal is to help understand artificial intelligence, how AI affects you, and how you affect it. All delivered in accurate, fun, expert-driven yet easy-to-understand conversations.
Each episode is available to stream wherever you listen to podcasts and is accompanied by a post with relevant links and a brief biography of the expert.
This first episode defines artificial intelligence, traces the history of AI development, and explains some commonly used terms.
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References:
What is Intelligence?
- Bench-Capon, T. J. M. (1990). Knowledge Representation: An Approach to Artificial Intelligence. Ellis Horwood Series in Artificial Intelligence. Ellis Horwood Limited.
- Wikipedia contributors. (2023, April 27). Intelligence. In Wikipedia. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
What is Artificial Intelligence?
- Wikipedia contributors. (2023, April 29). Artificial intelligence. In Wikipedia. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
Types of AI
- IBM. (n.d.). Strong AI. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/topics/strong-ai#:~:text=Weak%20AI%2C%20also%20known%20as,to%20solve%20for%20new%20problems.
History of AI Development
- Wikipedia contributors. (2023, April 27). Timeline of artificial intelligence. In Wikipedia. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_artificial_intelligence
- Harvard Medicine News. (2017, August 4). A brief history of artificial intelligence. Harvard Medical School. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/history-artificial-intelligence/
- Simonite, T. (2022, February 18). The History of IBM’s Deep Blue, the First Computer to Beat a Chess Grandmaster. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/18/1044709/ibm-deep-blue-ai-history/
- BBC Teach. (n.d.). 15 Key Moments in the Story of Artificial Intelligence. BBC. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ai-15-key-moments-in-the-story-of-artificial-intelligence/zh77cqt
Definition of Terms
- Wikipedia contributors. (2023, April 14). Deep learning. In Wikipedia. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning
- MIT Sloan School of Management. (n.d.). Machine Learning Explained. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/machine-learning-explained
About the Expert
Prisilia Mbuy is a senior IT service management professional. She specialises in Cloud Service Management. She is currently pursuing her PhD from Keele University with a focus on the algorithmic impact assessment to promote the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence
She has an MBA from Lancaster University Management School and an MSc in Information Technology and a BSc in Mathematics.
She has been in the computer science field for 20+ years and has worked with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Cegedim Rx, Informed Solutions, Sungard Vivista and more.
Currently working as a Senior Consultant at Microsoft, she focuses on assisting clients in transforming and implementing best practices for cloud service management so they can derive business value from their cloud services.
Originally posted by Stephanie S.I Ohumu on May 1, 2023.
Exported from Medium on April 22, 2025.