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"AI" today isn't well defined. Many people mean deep learning. Others mean ML. Others mean even more. More than anything, "AI" is a marketing term, where vague
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y ago
"AI" today isn't well defined. Many people mean deep learning. Others mean ML. Others mean even more. More than anything, "AI" is a marketing term, where vague buzzwords thrive.
- YeGoblynQueenne 7y agoYes, I am aware that there is a gigantic feeding frenzy right now and people who have no idea what they are talking about are falling over each other to write "expert" articles where they make a complete mess of what is AI, what is machine learning and what is deep learning. But, that there are people who don't know what they're talking about is no reason to copy them, or to perpetuate their mistakes. Do you disagree?
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y agoYes, I disagree. It's not (just) that those people don't know what they're talking about. The term doesn't have a standard usage/definition. Or at least not standard enough to decide whether the traveling salesman problem, linear regression, or a SAT solver are AI.
- YeGoblynQueenne 7y agoThat AI doesn't have an agreed upon definition doesn't mean that we can say it is whatever we want to say it is! For example, you may perhaps argue (at a very big stretch) that travelling salesman is an AI problem- that's arguing on the details. But to claim that all of AI is reducible to one sub-sub-field of AI, deep learning? That's just ignoring the fact that there is an entire research field that is commonly called "AI", with conferences and journals that have "AI" in their name, that are not about deep learning, with many thousands of researchers who consider their work "AI" and who do not work with deep learning, not to mention the 50 or so years and the mountain of work that this field considers its own, that also is not about deep learning.