What Is AI?
What AI Can & Can't Do
7 min+60 XPStep 1/11
Superhuman and subhuman at once
AI can beat world champions at Go, spot tumors radiologists miss, and generate photorealistic images. Yet the same systems can confidently claim 2+2=5, or fail to recognize a stop sign with a sticker on it.
AI doesn't have common sense — it has patterns. Where patterns in its training data apply, it's superhuman. Where they don't, it fails in ways no human would.
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AI systems don't 'know' facts the way humans do — they model statistical patterns. This is why they can be confidently wrong (hallucinate).