pragmatic approach to AI

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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AI raises many philisophical issues both about the technology itself and what it means to be human. However, it is also possibel to take a pragmatic stance and simply ask "is AI useful and appropriate for this problem?". Not that this pragmatic approach still includes issues of social responsibility and the ethics of AI, some of which may lead one back to philosophical questions, but the start point is practical.

Used in Chap. 1: page 7; Chap. 23: page 379

Also known as pragmatic AI