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AI has been a moving goalpost since its conception, all the way from • "it can play tic tac toe"; • to "it can beat people at chess, Jeopardy, Go, DotA"; • t
by blixt 8y ago
AI has been a moving goalpost since its conception, all the way from
• "it can play tic tac toe";
• to "it can beat people at chess, Jeopardy, Go, DotA";
• to "it can see, understand and physically move around our world";
• to "it solves problems the smartest humans can't begin to fathom"
Spotify's machine learning algorithms are definitely beyond tic tac toe as they can learn from millions of listeners and look at a single listening history to figure out great music suggestions. I would put that under the AI umbrella as it's something people were doing before computers did it.
- GrumpyNl 8y agoIs that AI from spotify or just smartly compairing lists?
- blixt 8y agoWhat is "smartly comparing lists"? To describe further (as I'm an ex-Spotify employee I have some outdated insight into how it works): Spotify has historically used machine learning to tweak a predictive engine that can convert a track or artist into an N-dimensional value and then use the distance to other tracks/artists in this N-dimensional space. Is that AI? Maybe. How does the brain work? Maybe when you see a dog it's converted into an N-dimensional space where cats are pretty close, at least much closer than turtles. So if that is human intelligence, is Spotify's recommendation engine not artificial intelligence?
- veli_joza 8y agoThanks for the insight, very interesting! I'm working on project that uses distances in N-dimensional space for determining appropriate human response and face expression; I was also wandering if this falls under AI umbrella.