The term ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) has been coined in the 1950’s but it is not a suitable term for machine intelligence. This is the view of the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella. He offers a contrasting view of human-computer interaction. In a sense, by calling it artificial intelligence as against the natural intelligence, we are attributing it human qualities — we are authropomorphizing it. In fact, it is just a tool. We can call it a ‘different intelligence’ since a human being has his own intelligence and does not need artificial intelligence. There is an inclination to describe AI in human terms. The complex algorithms used in AI are compared to human ‘learning’. Capabilities displayed by AI software, according to Nadella are not equivalent to human intelligence.
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