&gt;  I greatly dislike the term &quot;artificial intelligence&quot;. It&#x27;s as meaningless and distracting as that other horrible phrase, &quot;big data&quot;. I have no idea whether deep learning algorithms could lead to &quot;intelligence&quot;, or what that even means. What matters is what a technology can do , and in this case, deep learning can do a great many interesting things.<p>The term &quot;artificial intelligence&quot; refers to more than what technology can do.  It also refers to what technology <i>could</i> or <i>will</i> do.  That why this term matters for the public, as it points at potential future issues described in Science-Fiction.<p>As for what it means, I could agree that it&#x27;s difficult to coin it precisely, but it&#x27;s not meaningless either.  Some concepts have a meaning regardless of our ability to express this meaning accurately with words.  It&#x27;s a case of &quot;I know it when I see it.&quot;