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# AI is dead, long live AK


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 18, 2024
- **Time:** 16:50–17:20 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 10 (120)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1093-ai-is-dead-long-live-ak)

## Description

“Artificial Intelligence” (AI) has been explored in Sci-fi for over 150 years sparking the imagination of technologists, futurists, and the general public with the idea of machines that think, learn, and even surpass human intelligence. However, as we re-enter an era of “AI” being developed, sold and used across industries we start to realise that “AI” is not genuinely “intelligent” in the human sense but is more accurately described as “Artificial Knowledge” (AK).
This distinction underscores AI’s role as an advanced tool for data recall and pattern recognition, rather than an entity possessing autonomous thought or understanding.

## Speaker

### [Zachary Powell](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@zachary-powell)

DevRel Manager at Vonage


## Related talks at this congress

- [Bringing AI Everywhere](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/149-bringing-ai) — Stephan Gillich
- [You are not an AI developer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/258-you-are-not-an-ai) — Zan Markan
- [Bringing the power of AI to your application.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/234-bringing-the-power) — Krzysztof Cieślak
- [What AI Can, Can’t, and Shouldn’t do for Games](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/175-what-ai-can-can-t) — Romero