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You can't stretch definition of AI that wide. Where's AI in Microsoft Office? Where's AI in spellchecking? Where's AI in route planning? Demand planning, maybe

You can't stretch definition of AI that wide. Where's AI in Microsoft Office? Where's AI in spellchecking? Where's AI in route planning? Demand planning, maybe.

legolas2412 6y ago
N-gram based grammar rules for spell checking are by definition machine learning
mcguire 6y ago
"Where's AI in route planning?" Should we consider the "if it works, it's no longer AI" point made now?
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bo1024 6y ago
Imagine taking someone who didn't know English words or sounds, sitting them down with a document and dictionary, and asking them to spell-check it. If they could figure out that "butiful" should be "beautiful" in less than a week I'd call that really freaking intelligent. AI researchers of 40 years ago would be astounded by what Word can do. Route planning is essentially "the" fundamental AI problem. You need to get from A to B and there are 2^100 ways to do it. How do you pick the best one?
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- angry_octet 6y ago
  Just because you were taught routing in your AI class doesn't make it AI. It is a topic in graph theory and combinatorics. Dynamic programming is a useful technique for solving traditional AI problem formulations, but it isn't AI. In contrast, your example of the human is like modern AI, specifically unsupervised learning. I'm sure I could get a human doing that kind of pattern matching quite good at it quite quickly. If I didn't have a learning system I could still write an algorithm for it quite quickly, by computing the Levenshtein distance. But that algorithm would notoriously not understand the context of the sentence, probabilities of words, etc. And indeed Word/Android/iOS spell correct still gets it really wrong much of the time. But the AI used is quite different from old timey backtracking.
donio 6y ago
RIP Clippy
- jodrellblank 6y ago
  Not dead yet: https://github.com/smore-inc/clippy.js https://github.com/smore-inc/clippy.js
com2kid 6y ago
PowerPoint has an AI feature to do slide layout and design. Drop a few elements on a slide and it'll style + arrange them for you. Works really well even if it is a bit repetitive.

You can't stretch definition of AI that wide. Where's AI in Microsoft Office? Where's AI in spellchecking? Where's AI in route planning? Demand planning, maybe.

legolas2412 6y ago

N-gram based grammar rules for spell checking are by definition machine learning

mcguire 6y ago

"Where's AI in route planning?" Should we consider the "if it works, it's no longer AI" point made now?

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bo1024 6y ago

Imagine taking someone who didn't know English words or sounds, sitting them down with a document and dictionary, and asking them to spell-check it. If they could figure out that "butiful" should be "beautiful" in less than a week I'd call that really freaking intelligent. AI researchers of 40 years ago would be astounded by what Word can do. Route planning is essentially "the" fundamental AI problem. You need to get from A to B and there are 2^100 ways to do it. How do you pick the best one?

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angry_octet 6y ago
Just because you were taught routing in your AI class doesn't make it AI. It is a topic in graph theory and combinatorics. Dynamic programming is a useful technique for solving traditional AI problem formulations, but it isn't AI. In contrast, your example of the human is like modern AI, specifically unsupervised learning. I'm sure I could get a human doing that kind of pattern matching quite good at it quite quickly. If I didn't have a learning system I could still write an algorithm for it quite quickly, by computing the Levenshtein distance. But that algorithm would notoriously not understand the context of the sentence, probabilities of words, etc. And indeed Word/Android/iOS spell correct still gets it really wrong much of the time. But the AI used is quite different from old timey backtracking.

donio 6y ago

RIP Clippy

jodrellblank 6y ago
Not dead yet: https://github.com/smore-inc/clippy.js https://github.com/smore-inc/clippy.js

com2kid 6y ago

PowerPoint has an AI feature to do slide layout and design. Drop a few elements on a slide and it'll style + arrange them for you. Works really well even if it is a bit repetitive.