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That's the rub, isn't it? Your definition of AI is basically "things we can't do by computer yet", which will always be unobtainable, by definition. Meanwhile,
by OkayPhysicist 6y ago
That's the rub, isn't it? Your definition of AI is basically "things we can't do by computer yet", which will always be unobtainable, by definition.
Meanwhile, you've got marketers that are also trying to use that definition, in order to sell you on some software solution, despite it being oxymoronic.
Two better definitions of AI that I'm a fan of are "Algorithms that model intelligence" (where "intelligence" is the ability to use knowedge in inference), or the broader definition of "Second-order algorithms" or algorithms that, rather than encoding a process that finds a solution, encode a process for finding a process that presents a solution.
- romwell 6y agoWhy, I'm perfectly willing to take either definition of AI. My objection to the parent comment still stands; our world is not running on that. For example, Wolfram Alpha, or OpenAI's algorithms that can learn how to play Super Mario will fit the definitions you provided, but our present world does not depend on systems like that.