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We’ve been calling neural nets AI for decades. > 5 years before that, a Big Data algorithm. The DNN part? Absolutely not. I don’t know why people feel the ne
by IanCal 7mo ago
We’ve been calling neural nets AI for decades.
> 5 years before that, a Big Data algorithm.
The DNN part? Absolutely not.
I don’t know why people feel the need for such revisionism but AI has been a field encompassing things far more basic than this for longer than most commenters have been alive.
- magicalhippo 7mo ago> AI has been a field encompassing things far more basic than this for longer than most commenters have been alive. When I was 13, having just started programming, I picked up a book from a "junk bin" at a book store on Artificial Intelligence. It must have been from the mid-80s if not older. It had an entire chapter on syllogism[1] and how to implement a program to spit them out based on user input. As I recall it basically amounted to some string exteaction assuming user followed a template and string concatenation to generate the result. I distinctly recall not being impressed about such a trivial thing being part of a book on AI. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism
- rjh29 7mo agoEliza was 1960s. In the 1990s I remember taking my friend's IRC chat history and running it through a Markov model to generate drivel, which was really entertaining.