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More pedantically, there’s no intelligence in ML; AI doesn’t exist (yet).
by hk__2 8y ago
More pedantically, there’s no intelligence in ML; AI doesn’t exist (yet).
- Yen 8y agoThis devolves really quickly into debates on semantics. Which is not a bad thing, but it means it's important to be clear on definitions. I've heard Artificial Intelligence snarkily defined as "whatever computers can't do" - once a human understands the problem well enough to make a computer solve it, solving the problem is no longer "AI". What this says about human intelligence, if-and-when a computer can perform the full set of tasks a human can perform, is left as an exercise to the reader. In any case, right now, a computer can provide answers to certain problems much more quickly and accurately than a human, and can provide more optimal answers. Whether a particular computer does this via hand-tuned heuristics, brute force applied to simple algorithms, or statistics over massive data sets, or some magic "AI" voodoo, it does it.