Contrary to popular belief, A.I. as it currently exists does NOT refer to Artificial Intelligence.
In all it’s current publically available iterations, A.I. is at best, an advanced Algorithmic Intelligence. The title (AI) still works, but the media’s interpretation of the term is grossly misleading.
Machine Learning and advanced data filtering have led us to some truly remarkable AIs, however they are still only a collection of algorithms. Their experience and knowledge are bounded by the data they were trained on and filters put in place.
While they may be capable of further learning and ‘growth’, they are not (yet) capable of truly independant reasoning.
While it may seem an AI can write original content, the sad truth is that the best they can do is regurgitate data they have already parsed into a fresh mash-up.
Given the vast resources of historical archives on the cloud, an AI given access to every book written, would be able to devise ‘new’ fictional works by taking a little from everything it had parsed – but it would only be a mash-up of works already available.
It may be difficult for a human to prove AI plagiarism, but with enough people fact checking, and enough time (possibly lifetimes), it could eventually be proven that that the entire works of I. Mabot (a theoretical AI author) were entirely derived from snippets from {List of real human authors}.
WARNING: For students planning on using AI to write their next term paper, the proof becomes much simpler by nature of the closely defined topic of the material. While using AI to assist with researching papers can be beneficial, asking them to research and write the paper for you defeats the purpose of increasing your knowledge on a particular subject.
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