Here Is Why It Is Okay to Have Machines That Aren’t Artificially Intelligent

All over the world in boardrooms great and small can be heard talk of artificial intelligence and machine learning. AI/ML have become the short form way of writing about it because the words are used so often, it actually reduces productivity to write it out. They are no longer just words, they are buzzwords, power words. They will be mentioned in every official communication from every company. It doesn’t matter whether the subject is manufacturing or the driest pages of a quarterly report. CEOs are extremely concerned about whether their machines are learning. That’s fine as far as it goes. Machine learning is powering a lot of what the company will be doing for the foreseeable future. However, one suspects that some executives used the terms without having a strong grasp of what they really mean. No one wants to seem like they are not keeping up with the latest trends. But not every machine needs some form of artificial intelligence to be useful. No one wants an artificially intelligent hammer that makes decisions about whether or not it will pound nails. Consider these machines that are intelligent enough just the way they are: