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Could we please for once stop using the term "AI" when we mean "heuristics"?
by WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
Could we please for once stop using the term "AI" when we mean "heuristics"?
- withinboredom 3y agoPhones do use AI though, at least iPhones. They look at all sensors (accelerometers, gps, wifi, etc).
- lupusreal 3y agoSensor fusion is AI I guess.
- withinboredom 3y agoAI can be distilled down to a series of if-statements. That's basically all it is.
- lupusreal 3y agoRight, expert systems are GOF AI. What isn't?
- fennecbutt 3y agoThis is true of literally any software and if you really wanna oversimplify it, our brains are just a bunch of if statements (condition based logic) too...
- withinboredom 3y agoI noticed too late to add /s or to attribute the quote, but kinda sad that people are taking it literally. It’s a play on the quote “Life is a series of choices and reactions” from “Before The Fall”
- WesolyKubeczek 3y agoGosh, so the moment you use an if-statement, or an aggregate function (like sum or average), or weighting coefficients to mark some inputs as more significant than others, it's "AI" already? And I naïvely thought it was just, well, "computing". You could do "AI" on a 8086, ffs.
- withinboredom 3y agoYeah, forgot the /s ... wasn't being serious.
- rusticpenn 3y agoheuristics and Meta-heuristics are AI. Heuristics are how children (and adults) learn to solve new problems.