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> Anything that takes the repetitive cognitive load off a human and puts it into a specially trained computer is an AI. This is just watering out the term AI t

> Anything that takes the repetitive cognitive load off a human and puts it into a specially trained computer is an AI. This is just watering out the term AI to the point of uselessness and/or ridicule. I mean, by your definition, the steam-engine and punched-hole-card powered Jaquard looms of the early 17th century are an AI. Of course, those were the precursor to Babbage's general mechanical computer, so they were actually "specially trained computers". Edit: 19th century, not 17th. "There are two really hard problems in programming: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."

freehunter 10y ago
As far as I know, the steam engine didn't replace anything that used to require human thought. A mechanical loom isn't replacing human intelligence either. Yes, it replaced a human performing an action, but humans brains weren't exactly racked with figuring out how to sew or weave. Think about the word "artificial" and the word "intelligence". If it used to take a human thinking and reasoning about something to perform a task but now a computer is doing it, that is by its very definition, "artificial intelligence". A steam engine or mechanical loom don't replace human brains, they replace human hands. Which is why I said "cognitive load".