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Even the A* search algorithm is technically AI.
by sethd 2y ago
Even the A* search algorithm is technically AI.
- ykonstant 2y agoOh man, I really want to watch CNN folks try to pronounce Dijkstra!
- zelphirkalt 2y agodie-jick-stra!
- jcgrillo 2y agoWe could have it both ways with a Convolutional News Network
- catoc 2y agoLet alone Edsger
- ykonstant 2y agoThat reminded me of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icoe0kK8btc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icoe0kK8btc
- eru 2y agoWell, it used to be. But whenever we understand something, we move the goal posts of what AI is. At least that's what we used to do.
- aithrowawaycomm 2y agoIt's not "moving the goalposts." It's realizing that the principles behind perceptrons / Lisp expert systems / AlphaGo / LLMs / etc might be very useful and interesting from a software perspective, but they have nothing to do with "intelligence," and they aren't a viable path for making machines which can actually think in the same way a chimpanzee can think. At best they do a shallow imitation of certain types of formal human thinking. So the search continues.
- eru 2y agoNo, it's still moving the goalposts. It just that we move the goalposts for pretty good reasons. (I agree!) Btw, you bring up the perspective of realising that our tools weren't adequate. But it's broader: completely ignoring the tools, we also realise that eg being able to play eg chess really, really well didn't actually capture what we wanted to mean by 'intelligence'. Similar for other outcomes.
- bmicraft 2y agoMoving the goal posts and noticing that that you mistook the street lights for goal posts is not really the same.