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I had a similar worry about a year ago. On reflection I realised that AI is a much broader, vaguer term than I'd thought. It can be used to describe any softwar
by n4r9 8y ago
I had a similar worry about a year ago. On reflection I realised that AI is a much broader, vaguer term than I'd thought. It can be used to describe any software which replaces some human process involving decision-making. A huge range of software can legitimately or tenuously be made to fit that criterion. Doesn't have to involve ML, deep learning, neural nets or anything like that, even if some people would prefer AI to specifically mean those things.
- supercanuck 8y agoI was confused when I learned linear regression is considered ML now.
- Ragib_Zaman 8y agoIts been considered ML ever since experts started writing books about ML (and before that, "pattern recognition"). Most introductory ML books cover it in some detail.
- contravariant 8y agoWell, it's not like a support vector machine that just separates two point clouds by a hyperplane is that much more advanced than an algorithm that draws a line that best matches a point cloud.
- HALtheWise 8y agoI have gradually come around to the idea that AI as a term is more a statement about the user experience than the underlying technology. If a product "feels" intelligent to the user, and that is not being provided by manual human labor, it doesn't matter whether the underlying system is a lookup table, and rules based expert system, a numerical optimization technique, or a neural network. It is entirely reasonable to call game AI by that term even if the most sophisticated algorithm it uses is A*. As an engineer, I try to use more specific terms for talking about implementation decisions like "machine learning", "deep networks" or "dynamic optimization". It might be reasonable to raise a point like "I'm not sure that our current product actually seems intelligent to our users, what can we do to better live up to the marketing vision", but objecting to the term AI just because it means something different in engineering than in plain English seems a little bit unreasonable. If the target of your marketing is engineers, that might change things.
- ksaj 8y agoRemember when "expert system" was the AI buzzword du jour? Technically, the majority of expert systems were narrowly focused (single purpose) search engines that were unable to extract or infer novel information from the collected data. That required humans who still referred to it as artificial intelligence.