Robotics & AI

Artificial intelligence is discussed more than almost any other technology and defined less carefully than most, which makes a clear vocabulary genuinely useful. This category separates the ideas that get conflated: robots, which act in the physical world, from AI, which processes information; and machine learning, which improves from data, from programming, which does not. It covers the history, the working concepts and the fiction that shaped expectations. The explanations describe what current systems actually do and avoid both dismissal and hype, since the honest picture is more interesting than either.