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>History says that the things in the middle, usually ones with the clearest computational model beneath them, get a fancy name and we stop calling it AI and we
by coldtea 3y ago
>History says that the things in the middle, usually ones with the clearest computational model beneath them, get a fancy name and we stop calling it AI and we just call it algorithms.
I've heard this before, but do we? Which were those this from the past that we "stopped called AI and we just call algorithms"?
I see three categories:
(1) very complex algorithms that we never did call "AI".
(2) stuff we did call AI, and we still do - things like expert systems, or IBM's Watson, or game AI. We knew, and still know, that those weren't AGI.
(3) some stuff promoted as AI (like the "AI assistant" Clippy), but which, marketing materials aside, nobody really considered AI or called them that.
But I don't remember this demoting/relabelling of stuff from AI to "just algorithms". It might have happened with some stuff, but I doubt it was a "classic" development as its portrayed.
- Izkata 3y agoOffhand, things that used to just be "AI": Expert systems, markov chains, genetic algorithms, data mining, and identification/classification. People in the field would probably say they fall under the AI umbrella, but it's not the common viewpoint. Either someone can conceptualize how they'd work (expert systems) or they've been watered down and turned commonplace (markov chains in software keyboards, identification in Facebook images), and either way it disassociates the technology with the "intelligence" part of "artificial intelligence", so is no longer thought of as part of it.