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The AI term has been coopted by Hollywood notions of synthetic human-level intelligence but it really is just referring to the academic discipline which Random
by jjcon 3y ago
The AI term has been coopted by Hollywood notions of synthetic human-level intelligence but it really is just referring to the academic discipline which Random Forests definitely falls under and has for decades.
- a_bonobo 3y agoYes I agree, but OP's link is not aimed at academics, it's aimed at the general public. And you can't expect the general public to know that distinction: they see 'AI', they think 'ChatGPT', not Random Forests
- IanCal 3y agoAI has been discussed in public for years and was attached to huge numbers of things well before chatgpt. Chatgpt only came out less than a year ago.
- nerdponx 3y agoWe've also been using the term Machine Learning for a long time to try to avoid this. Using "AI" where "ML" would suffice is just trying to cash in on recent hype for clicks. Still an interesting result of course.
- fluidcruft 3y agoMy understanding is "ML" came into existence after the term "AI" became an untouchable and disrespectful dirty word in academia after a previous hype cycle went bust. Statisticians wouldn't be caught dead working on "AI". See also xkcd purity scale (435).
- Kye 3y agoIt looks like machine learning took over in the 2010s after a long convergence starting in the 2000s. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=artificial+intelligence%2Cmachine+learning&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=artificial+int... This is from published books, so probably less affected by popular narratives. For that, we have Google Trends! It looks like they trade places repeatedly when constrained to news searches: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all_2008&geo=US&gprop=news&q=%2Fm%2F01hyh_,%2Fm%2F0mkz&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all_2008...
- nerdponx 3y agoRight. ML is less likely to arouse emotions in either direction.
- 6D794163636F756 3y agoIt's also a refinement on the term. AI can include a lot while ML is much more specific.
- jjcon 3y agoNot really though it may seem that way. Not all AI is ML. There are a ton of things within AI such as planning algorithms or Expert Systems. Again those are under the academic discipline of AI but not in the subfield of ML.