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What is considered "AI" changes over time. At any point in history, if a machine appears to do a task that only a human brain used to be able to do, then that's

What is considered "AI" changes over time. At any point in history, if a machine appears to do a task that only a human brain used to be able to do, then that's considered "AI". So in the mid 1900s a calculator that is able to do arithmetic was considered "AI", and in the late 1900s chess playing machines were considered "AI". Today those things are not considered "AI". What is considered "AI" today will not be considered "AI" a decade or two from now. More: https://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report/section-i-what-artificial-intelligence/defining-ai https://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report/section-i-what-artifi...

ahepp 6y ago
>So in the mid 1900s a calculator that is able to do arithmetic was considered "AI" Is this true? The citation you link doesn't seem to clearly state that. I see the linked page says: >A simple electronic calculator performs calculations much faster than the human brain, and almost never makes a mistake.[4] Is a calculator intelligent? But I don't see where it says anyone in the mid 1900s thought a calculator was AI. I am no historian, but I can think of numerous examples of AI in science fiction throughout the 1900s and perhaps earlier. Metropolis, Rossum's Universal Robots, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Heck, one could probably even draw the line all the way back to Frankenstein. Maybe the lower bound for what gets called AI to sell stuff has changed over time, but it seems like there's been a pretty clear and consistent (if poorly defined) goal of human-like intelligence.
- flowerlad 6y ago
  > there's been a pretty clear and consistent (if poorly defined) goal of human-like intelligence. You don't think performing arithmetic and playing chess could ever have been thought of as requiring human-like intelligence? See https://www.leanix.net/en/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning https://www.leanix.net/en/blog/what-is-the-difference-betwee... Excerpts: Artificial intelligence has been around for ages, with it even being used in the Greek mythology to express human like machines which copied man’s behaviour. At the beginning, even early computers were considered logical machines as they were able to reproduce “intelligent” capabilities such a arithmetics and memory… Engineers of that era saw it as an attempt to create mechanical brains. Nowadays, something as “trivial” as a calculator function, does not go hand in hand with our current concept of Artificial Intelligence.

ahepp 6y ago

>So in the mid 1900s a calculator that is able to do arithmetic was considered "AI" Is this true? The citation you link doesn't seem to clearly state that. I see the linked page says: >A simple electronic calculator performs calculations much faster than the human brain, and almost never makes a mistake.[4] Is a calculator intelligent? But I don't see where it says anyone in the mid 1900s thought a calculator was AI. I am no historian, but I can think of numerous examples of AI in science fiction throughout the 1900s and perhaps earlier. Metropolis, Rossum's Universal Robots, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Heck, one could probably even draw the line all the way back to Frankenstein. Maybe the lower bound for what gets called AI to sell stuff has changed over time, but it seems like there's been a pretty clear and consistent (if poorly defined) goal of human-like intelligence.

flowerlad 6y ago
> there's been a pretty clear and consistent (if poorly defined) goal of human-like intelligence. You don't think performing arithmetic and playing chess could ever have been thought of as requiring human-like intelligence? See https://www.leanix.net/en/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning https://www.leanix.net/en/blog/what-is-the-difference-betwee... Excerpts: Artificial intelligence has been around for ages, with it even being used in the Greek mythology to express human like machines which copied man’s behaviour. At the beginning, even early computers were considered logical machines as they were able to reproduce “intelligent” capabilities such a arithmetics and memory… Engineers of that era saw it as an attempt to create mechanical brains. Nowadays, something as “trivial” as a calculator function, does not go hand in hand with our current concept of Artificial Intelligence.