[IgorPartola]

Can it be both? AI excels at doing repetitive things better than humans, like maybe driving a car. Until it encounters a situation that it hasn’t seen before that cannot accurately be described with bits and pieces of what it knows. Then it’s result isn’t a little off the mark, it’s a lot. Think of a disaster like what happened with Ever Given or Chernobyl. How many different ways could AI have made the situation worse when confronted with those problems because there is no good definition of an optimal solution here.

[mlthoughts2018]

Generalization to previously unseen examples is one of the core components of ML models.