What are the limitations of AI?

AI technology will be powerful and transformative, but AI is not a magic silver bullet solution for security or any other problems. AI has very real and significant limitations, and it is far from the fully independent human-like artificial general intelligence (AGI) we frequently see portrayed in movies and TV shows.

The main limitation is that AI models don’t truly understand content in the complex and rich ways that humans do. AI will also naturally reflect and propagate any biases in its data, whether or not these biases are known and documented.

Let’s take a quick look at these key limitations of AI.

AI models do not “understand” anything

While generative AI appears to “understand” things on the surface, it is only imitating the original content it was trained on. This extremely shallow “understanding” is similar to fake buildings (façades) on a Western movie set – these...