Artificial Pseudo-Intelligence
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Inside Retail published an article written by Retail Directions, which dispels the myths surrounding ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and its purported massive impact on retail in the future. We have stressed the point that technologies which have been available for quite a few years are now promoted as revolutionary, mainly because they have been combined with voice recognition, voice synthesisers, and made mobile. This means that we now have access to increasingly smarter animated matter, but it has NO intelligence – it just gives the appearance of intelligence. This realisation redefines the expectations we should have about the likely future of ‘AI’ in retail.