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The history of AI research has been one of moving goalposts. Technologies only stay "AI" until they're shown to be useful. At various points in the past, comput
by delecti 3y ago
The history of AI research has been one of moving goalposts. Technologies only stay "AI" until they're shown to be useful. At various points in the past, computing in general, self-modifying code, search algorithms, computer vision, chat bots, neural networks, stable diffusion, large language models, and more, have all been considered "AI" at various points in their development. Occasionally, people will demonstrate that a topic in "AI" has a broader usefulness, and the specific name will be used, and people will argue online whether it's "really AI".
About 15 years ago I learned about several of those topics in an AI course in college, and now they're all frequent occurrences in debates about whether they're really AI.