Telling AI from ordinary automation - Artificial Intelligence | Zoonk

Telling AI from ordinary automation - Artificial Intelligence | Zoonk

Telling AI from ordinary automation

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A simple split image: on the left, a digital alarm clock showing “7:00” with sound waves; on the right, a home thermostat raising the heat as a person’s arrival is detected, labeled “fixed time” and “adapts to arrival.”

Start with the behavior

Imagine two devices. One alarm rings every day at 7:00; another home system changes the heat because it notices when people usually arrive. Both are computerized, but only one is adapting to the situation.