SearchResearch 8/10/6: What can your AI system do? (1/2)

When you use a tool, ... you usually know what it can do. A knife cuts, a hammer drives in nails, a pen draws a line. Of course, tools can be specialized for particular tasks (e.g., a fish knife or a ball peen hammer ), or can be floridly multi-purpose (like your favorite computer or a Swiss Army Knife like that above). This raises a great question about what's your mental model of an AI system?…