Artificial intelligence is best understood as a family of techniques rather than one product. Some systems classify images, some recommend information, some translate language, and others help researchers search large collections of data.
The useful question is not whether a machine is generally intelligent. It is what a particular system can do, what data shaped it, where it fails, and who remains responsible for the decision. That framing makes conversations about AI more concrete and less theatrical.
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