It seems most people have a very anthropocentric view of intelligence, where intelligence could be defined as "acting like a human." So an AI is only really con

It seems most people have a very anthropocentric view of intelligence, where intelligence could be defined as "acting like a human." So an AI is only really considered intelligent if it has a bunch of human like traits, which are unessential to intelligence. A public image problem arises when people hear offhand about advancements in the field, their imagination runs wild with thoughts of omnipotent and vengeful machines, inspired by movies like terminator. They assume all researchers are actively working toward creating a human-like entity, like skynet. Basically we have a looming public image crisis. Better informing the public about what real AIs are, and what they're designed to do, should help quell a lot of misplaced fears. When you remove the veneer of Holywood, you're left with a machine that's just crunching numbers on a dataset, which isn't very glamorous or frightening.