A lot of people mistake Machine Learning and General Artificial Intelligence.  From what I understand (and I&#x27;m no expert), ML is a focused task which it does one thing really really well.<p>The idea of General Artificial Intelligence is something that can learn anything you throw by adapting and reinforcing base assumptions.<p>There&#x27;s a podcast called Talking Machines that really dives into a lot of this stuff.  He&#x27;s freaking great and pretty darn entertaining.