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> this is not an AI search engine. [...] It's just an ML bot mediating a search between you and the engine Pure semantics. This whole class of "it's not AI,

> this is not an AI search engine. [...] It's just an ML bot mediating a search between you and the engine Pure semantics. This whole class of "it's not AI, it's ML" argument is incredibly tedious, these arguments rely on implicit special snowflake definitions of AI. Arguments like "real AI can understand things" are completely ass-pulled. Who ever said that true understanding, whatever the hell that even means, is a necessary quality of an AI? This isn't taught in any university AI course (which teach even ELIZA as an early form of AI), nor is such a meaning implicit in popular culture, so where is it even coming from?

eichin 3y ago
There's a meme in some AI circles that "once we understand it, it isn't AI anymore" and things like ML, NLP, and most of the Machine Vision field, while they came from AI, have "escaped" and are no longer AI because we've actually figured them out. That's probably some of what you're seeing; it's probably also colliding with "AI is an umbrella over a bunch of technologies, AGI is scifi/fantasy" which is pushing the other way - that one is a little tainted by the whole "intelligence is uniquely human" bit of wishful thinking, where the former is expressing the simpler idea that "I can estimate and ship a product that uses NLP; any estimate about an AI product is a lie"...