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"artificial intelligence" is a vague and moving target. I'm not sure I would call that "a field". It's been used to talk about computers playing chess, then ma

"artificial intelligence" is a vague and moving target. I'm not sure I would call that "a field". It's been used to talk about computers playing chess, then machine learning, and now LLM-based systems.

frozenseven 1mo ago
Of course it's been "used" to talk about those things, because all of those things are examples of AI. Always have been.
- qsera 1mo ago
  Then it has always been the age of "AI"...So the article title is inaccurate!
  - frozenseven 1mo ago
    We can meaningfully talk about (1) the existence of a field and (2) the said field hitting its stride. The title of Tao's article denotes the latter. And oh, what a stride it is: https://vibemathed.com/stats https://vibemathed.com/stats
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    - qsera 1mo ago
      Sure, but I expect more precision from people like the author.
      - chrisjj 1mo ago
        Not to mention accuracy. His "age of AI" seems to be no more than "the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that are capable of performing research-level mathematical tasks"