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I took a degree in AI, and now I'm firmly convinced that AI == search. If you make something searchable in a simple, new way, that's AI. If it's grandiose but d
by zandorg 18y ago
I took a degree in AI, and now I'm firmly convinced that AI == search. If you make something searchable in a simple, new way, that's AI. If it's grandiose but doesn't work, that's not useful.
- jibiki 18y agoTwo exceptions: 1. Many computer vision algorithms (Canny...) are more clever than search. 2. Fourier analysis is not search. But maybe that's too low-level to be "real" AI.
- zandorg 18y agoAbout (1), I wrote some software that finds text in an image, by searching for items and filtering with rules. Maybe in my post, I was being too general. I studied neural networks at University too, and maybe I don't use them because I find them hard to apply to a search task. But all the AI module's theory (outside of neural nets) was about searching trees, etc.
- endtime 18y agoAI includes heuristic search (and a great many problems can be solved with heuristic search), but it includes other things as well.
- zandorg 18y agoOh well. Maybe I should just say "Here's what I learned as AI at MY University and your mileage may vary".