The “artificial” preceding “intelligence”

We live in an incredible period in history; humans can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for humans that could never be done before. Even so, one should not cloud what are the machine's limitations, thinking they can be smarter than humans or that that data mining can identify previously unknown truths, or make discoveries that will revolutionize lives. 

Computers are very good at discovering patterns, but are useless in judging whether the unearthed patterns are sensible because computers do not think the way humans think.

"The AI Delusion" book, by Gary Smith explains why we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, and that black boxes should be trusted. We fear that super-intelligent machines will decide to protect themselves by enslaving or eliminating humans. But the real danger is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us and, so, trust computers to make important decisions for us.

The adjective “artificial” preceding “intelligence” is a warning that real intelligence is not just carrying out the steps that someone else has coded - only human wisdom can combine with data to produce real insights.