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> I am not sure I would consider decision trees and the like as 'AI' in any sense. These have always been considered AI, and I don’t see any reason that would
by shmageggy 4y ago
> I am not sure I would consider decision trees and the like as 'AI' in any sense.
These have always been considered AI, and I don’t see any reason that would change.
E.g. https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/contents.html https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/contents.html
- ochrist 4y agoSo if I were to replace a large switch statement with a decision table, then that's AI all of a sudden?
- moffkalast 4y agoIt's artificial and makes intelligent decisions, so yes? Even the switch statement was AI before you replaced it. The definition of an intelligent decision appears as such: A choice or conclusion made after carefully considering various factors, options, and potential outcomes. If those conclusions are made ahead of time and baked it, does it make any real difference if nobody can tell from the outside? I think not. It's safe to say there's a lot of intelligent decisions in any software in existence. Wait, it's all AI? Always has been. What OP's probably really trying to say is they don't want to use black box AI of sufficient complexity that nobody alive knows how any of it works. That's the only real hard distinction I guess?
- welfare 4y agoCorrect, AI has always been a catch-all for many different algorithms and models for statistical analysis. One definition from the 50's is "the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without explicitly being programmed.”
- thfuran 4y agoThey also have somewhat notoriously long been considered not AI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect