> since AIs do not have the ability to "understand" what they're doing, their input data has to be classified first to be usable to the machine You're mixing A

> since AIs do not have the ability to "understand" what they're doing, their input data has to be classified first to be usable to the machine You're mixing AI as a concept with a current, specific implementation. They are not the same. Also, even in current networks "understand what they're doing" is a bit fuzzy. Did you know that when using just numerical examples for a task, the description of the task appears in the intermediate layers?