14 MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
In Chapter 1 we recalled the dystopian future of Terminator: a future where machines have taken over the world and determine to eradicate humans. This has been a reference point for many of those writing about the risks of artificial intelligence. But what is artificial intelligence? How does machine learning relate to it? Where does data science fit into this?
As with so many other terms we have come across, there is no consensus on the term artificial intelligence. The UK government define it by its adaptivity and its autonomy (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, 2023). This is looking at AI from a technology and risk perspective, the adaptative and autonomous characteristics ...
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