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> "AI" just means a computer program that has some ability to reason about data similarly to a human Not even similarly to a human, especially if you talk to t
by dkersten 7y ago
> "AI" just means a computer program that has some ability to reason about data similarly to a human
Not even similarly to a human, especially if you talk to the average business person. Anything software does that is in some way seen as "intelligent" is seen as AI by a layperson. I recently encountered a situation where someone I worked with was demoing automated triggering of actions based on simple conditions (eg metric A > metric B) and the business person being demoed to said something to the effect of "oh so its AI!".
Anything that is artificially intelligent in some form is seen as AI to someone to the point where the term is quite meaningless.
Machine Learning is a better term because its somewhat more specific and we're not even close to AGI yet, so if it were up to me, I'd just retire the term AI altogether as not being useful.
- derefr 7y ago> Anything software does that is in some way seen as "intelligent" is seen as AI by a layperson. I mean... isn't that the technically-correct definition? It's artificial. It's intelligent. So it's artificial intelligence. Academia can define "AI" as a term however it likes, but in practice people are always just going to interpret it as the brute juxtaposition of the two adjectives that compose it.
- dkersten 7y agoSure, I'm not arguing against it, just pointing out what we think as AI isn't what a non-tech person sees as AI. > in practice people are always just going to interpret it as the brute juxtaposition of the two adjectives that compose it. Indeed.