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Why do people call is "Artificial Intelligence" when it could be called "Statistical Model for Choosing Data"? "Intelligence" implies "thinking" for most peopl

by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

Why do people call is "Artificial Intelligence" when it could be called "Statistical Model for Choosing Data"? "Intelligence" implies "thinking" for most people, just as "Learning" in machine learning implies "understanding" for most people. The algorithms created neither 'think' nor 'understand' and until you understand that, it may be difficult to accurately judge the value of the results produced by these systems.

IgorPartola 10mo ago
How do you feel about Business Intelligence as a term?
- ChuckMcM 10mo ago
  Same way I feel about 'Military Intelligence' :-). Both of those phrases use the 'information gathering and analysis' definition of intelligence rather than the 'thinking' definition.
  - mjcohen 10mo ago
    Like the old saying: Military justice is to justice as military music is to music
james_marks 10mo ago
If we say “artificial flavoring”, we have a sense that it is an emulation of something real, and often a poor one. Why, when we use the term for AI, do we skip over this distinction and expect it to be as good as the original—- or better? That wouldn’t be artificial intelligence, it would just be the original artifact: “intelligence”.
resonious 10mo ago
Actually I think the name is apt. It's artificial. It's like how an "artificial banana" isn't actually a banana. It doesn't have to be real thinking or real learning, it just has to look intelligent (which it does).
wongarsu 10mo ago
The term was coined in 1955 to describe "learning or any other feature of intelligence" simulated by a machine [1]. The same proposal does list using natural language as one of the aspects of "the artificial intelligence problem" It's not a perfect term, but we have been using it for seven full decades to include all of machine learning and plenty of things even less intelligent 1: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmo...

IgorPartola 10mo ago

How do you feel about Business Intelligence as a term?

ChuckMcM 10mo ago
Same way I feel about 'Military Intelligence' :-). Both of those phrases use the 'information gathering and analysis' definition of intelligence rather than the 'thinking' definition.
- mjcohen 10mo ago
  Like the old saying: Military justice is to justice as military music is to music

james_marks 10mo ago

If we say “artificial flavoring”, we have a sense that it is an emulation of something real, and often a poor one. Why, when we use the term for AI, do we skip over this distinction and expect it to be as good as the original—- or better? That wouldn’t be artificial intelligence, it would just be the original artifact: “intelligence”.

resonious 10mo ago

Actually I think the name is apt. It's artificial. It's like how an "artificial banana" isn't actually a banana. It doesn't have to be real thinking or real learning, it just has to look intelligent (which it does).

wongarsu 10mo ago

The term was coined in 1955 to describe "learning or any other feature of intelligence" simulated by a machine [1]. The same proposal does list using natural language as one of the aspects of "the artificial intelligence problem" It's not a perfect term, but we have been using it for seven full decades to include all of machine learning and plenty of things even less intelligent 1: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmo...