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No because AI is just a marketing term for unproven technology to generate hype. Once something is proven and use cases/limitations understood its no longer AI.

No because AI is just a marketing term for unproven technology to generate hype. Once something is proven and use cases/limitations understood its no longer AI. Spellcheck was once considered AI

smcin 3y ago
> Spellcheck was once considered AI No it wasn't, let's not start spreading misinformation. Spellcheck was around since the 1990s. Originally it was simple heuristic-based against a dictionary (localized, maybe also allowing some personalization). Noone called it AI, pre-2010 AFAIK. Can you show any pre-2010 citations for any actual mainstream consumer-available spellchecking using AI?) I only see a small number of references to the use of AI in spellchecking, mostly post-2018, and they're still the minority of mentions of spellchecking, dictionary heuristics is still a simpler much more basic technique, even if ads don't say that. (There are now (post-2018, GPT-era) AI-based spellchecking/writing-coach/style-type startups, and obviously there are also many companies trying to infuse their collateral with claims about AI, or pivot/bolt on AI to a non-AI concept. Let's not muddle all that together.)
- aidenn0 3y ago
  > let's not start spreading misinformation. The first non-research-project spell-checker was in 1971 and came from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), where earlier research on spell checking had been done.
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- shellygoodman 3y ago
  > No it wasn't, let's not start spreading misinformation. This website ("hacker" news) should really be renamed "confidently wrong"; just like smcin's laughable assertion. HN is a propaganda site run by billionaires who editorialize and moderate it to promote their own interests. It's infested with this type of confidently wrong know-it-all. You know what's worse than a pedant? An incorrect pedant. And this site is stuffed with them. It's a Dunning-Kruger hall of mirrors.
  - drewcoo 3y ago
    Mostly concur, but I'd downplay the D-K. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202012/dunning-kruger-isnt-real https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2020...
- shellygoodman 3y ago
  > Spellcheck was around since the 1990s. And the moon was settled by whalers sometime in the 1750's! Seriously, you're approaching that level of wrong.

No because AI is just a marketing term for unproven technology to generate hype. Once something is proven and use cases/limitations understood its no longer AI. Spellcheck was once considered AI

smcin 3y ago

> Spellcheck was once considered AI No it wasn't, let's not start spreading misinformation. Spellcheck was around since the 1990s. Originally it was simple heuristic-based against a dictionary (localized, maybe also allowing some personalization). Noone called it AI, pre-2010 AFAIK. Can you show any pre-2010 citations for any actual mainstream consumer-available spellchecking using AI?) I only see a small number of references to the use of AI in spellchecking, mostly post-2018, and they're still the minority of mentions of spellchecking, dictionary heuristics is still a simpler much more basic technique, even if ads don't say that. (There are now (post-2018, GPT-era) AI-based spellchecking/writing-coach/style-type startups, and obviously there are also many companies trying to infuse their collateral with claims about AI, or pivot/bolt on AI to a non-AI concept. Let's not muddle all that together.)

aidenn0 3y ago
> let's not start spreading misinformation. The first non-research-project spell-checker was in 1971 and came from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), where earlier research on spell checking had been done.
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shellygoodman 3y ago
> No it wasn't, let's not start spreading misinformation. This website ("hacker" news) should really be renamed "confidently wrong"; just like smcin's laughable assertion. HN is a propaganda site run by billionaires who editorialize and moderate it to promote their own interests. It's infested with this type of confidently wrong know-it-all. You know what's worse than a pedant? An incorrect pedant. And this site is stuffed with them. It's a Dunning-Kruger hall of mirrors.
- drewcoo 3y ago
  Mostly concur, but I'd downplay the D-K. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202012/dunning-kruger-isnt-real https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2020...
shellygoodman 3y ago
> Spellcheck was around since the 1990s. And the moon was settled by whalers sometime in the 1750's! Seriously, you're approaching that level of wrong.