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Why devoid of AI? Not being combative here, genuinely curious Perhaps devoid of machine learning, given the year, but even that seems unlikely if the anecdote
by ketzo 4y ago
Why devoid of AI? Not being combative here, genuinely curious
Perhaps devoid of machine learning, given the year, but even that seems unlikely if the anecdote is true.
If predicting and planning outcomes and with previous data is not some form of AI, what is?
Agreed on the valuable ERP thing, though. There’s a reason SAP is as expensive as it is.
- cachvico 4y ago> If predicting and planning outcomes and with previous data is not some form of AI, what is? Algorithmic forecasting. If you squint really hard, the entirety of computer science falls under "AI". But practically speaking, today AI refers to ML. It's quite possible a savvy programmer integrated the weather forecast to the ERP, with specific products tagged as relevant to a sunny (or wet) outlook. That's not AI, that's just an algo. It's also possible there was ML at play, but that's not clear, and not necessarily the case.
- quickthrower2 4y agoYou need a demand forecast for the weather so at least stats was used. Maybe linear regression?
- thrwyoilarticle 4y ago>practically speaking, today AI refers to ML. But it shouldn't and it won't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
- marcosdumay 4y agoOh, ok. If you go with the definition that says that AI is what tries to solve any problem that is still not solved well enough to be useful, then yes, useful software doesn't have it. AI is a pretty useless name, anyway. Since no two people will agree on its meaning. Anyway, I doubt people tagged what products are most sold on good weather. That's the kind of thing that is almost always discovered by statistic analysis. (We call some statistic analysis "machine learning", while others that do the exact same thing we don't.)
- rocqua 4y agoThe predictive planning _could_ be done with AI that tries to automatically infer what will be bought. However, it could also be done by a (maintained) list of hard-coded rules. If it was some form of automatic inference, perhaps one could call it AI. I simply don't think a hand-designed decision tree for a specific task can be called AI.