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Most of the things people call AI isn't actually AI. Buzz words just help with funding, and at the same time the projects are undoubtedly useful so everyone jus
by valine 8y ago
Most of the things people call AI isn't actually AI. Buzz words just help with funding, and at the same time the projects are undoubtedly useful so everyone just goes with it. News sites get more clicks and ad revenue for writing articles on AI, researchers get funding, and the world gets better image classifiers.
- blantonl 8y agoExactly. Just look at IBM Watson. That project started as some machine learning technology until the huge enterprise marketing arm got ahold of it, and then they began repositioning what are essentially shell scripts and regular expressions parsing data into "Watson XXX Vertical AI"
- wool_gather 8y agoThere's another way of looking at it. Given that we accept a spectrum of intelligence in biological forms -- i.e., a spider is not as intelligent as a sheep is not as intelligent as a crow is not as intelligent as a human -- why wouldn't we also have a spectrum for A.I.?
- stOneskull 8y agoyou are right. there should be.