To clear things up, I drew you this flowchart on the back of an envelope so you can work out whether something is using AI or not. This originally appeared in our AI newsletter The Algorithm.

"Water tractor beam: Complex waves generate flow patterns to manipulate floating objects." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 10 August 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 08 / 140810214202.htm>.