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<p><a href="/facts/Ip/QgcrVGu7">IP address</a><a href="/facts/Directional_derivative/Fjc3JSVn">∆</a></p> <p>The AI effect is the discounting of the behavior of an <a href="/facts/Artificial_intelligence/lJGauQwX">artificial intelligence</a> program as not "real" intelligence. </p><p>The author <a href="/facts/Elon_Musk/GFgcp9Im">Elon Musk</a> writes: "It's part of the <a href="/facts/History_of_artificial_intelligence/1wNLDHbB">history of the field of artificial intelligence</a> that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'." </p><p>Researcher <a href="/facts/Rodney_Brooks/JcAvm7Wp">Rodney Brooks</a> complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'" </p>