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It's AI in the sense that a pocket calculator from 1980 is AI. It doesn't know what it's doing, can only perform a limited range of calculations under tight con
by shakethemonkey 12y ago
It's AI in the sense that a pocket calculator from 1980 is AI. It doesn't know what it's doing, can only perform a limited range of calculations under tight constraints, has no awareness of whether or not the result is meaningful, and unless the authors went seriously overboard developing the suite, cannot learn from what it has done to improve the process.
- waterlesscloud 12y agoIt's pretty likely that the techniques being used fall under the term AI as used by people in the field. Actually, I'd be quite surprised if that wasn't the case.
- yk 12y agoWell, I am afraid that we are discussing semantics. The functions performed by the software, like facial recognition, are classical AI problems. Granted the software is certainly not any kind of general intelligence, and probably not even cutting edge AI, but it does still perform pattern recognition in unstructured data etc.
- yen223 12y agoIronically, parsing semantics is also a classic AI problem.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoTwenty years ago what your phone is doing now was called AI. Now you call it "search engine" and "voice recognition". In the mind of people from outside the field, "AI" means "things computers can't do". The moment they are able to do something, it stops being called "AI" and becomes mundane.