Advances in machine learning and neuroscience have helped make great strides in computer vision. But we still have a long way to go before we can build AI systems that see the world as we do.

Welcome to Neural’s beginner’s guide to AI. This multi-part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. The guide contains ...

Perhaps, but even then machine intelligence would not equate to human intelligence—it would still be something different, as the Dreyfus brothers also predicted nearly four decades ago.

The difference between computer and flesh-and-blood was huge, I quickly found, and really not about information processing at all.