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Those algorithms were only called machine learning and it's the opposite. Before the marketers got ahold of it we reserved AI for the actually intelligent, sen
by erikerikson 2mo ago
Those algorithms were only called machine learning and it's the opposite. Before the marketers got ahold of it we reserved AI for the actually intelligent, sentient, full strength vision of intelligent systems. We now talk about general AIs and A[Super]Is.
- rrvsh 2mo agoThat's not true. AI was widely used to refer to the decision systems and state machines that produced NPC behaviour in video games, and I'm sure many other things than just science fiction
- regularfry 2mo agoParsing used to be "AI". If you look at proceedings of old AI conferences you get this impression that anything interesting you might program a computer to do has passed through the field at some point.
- inigyou 2mo agoWeren't they trying to parse human languages? I think that's still AI. And they didn't manage to, but what they tried ended up falling down to a more basic level of computer science.
- erikerikson 2mo agoThat's true. The gaming community used the acronym that way. Good exception to the rule. As your respondents point out there's also been the pattern of clever algorithms being classified as "AI" until they were understood. That differentiated those selling snake oil from the serious.
- kyle-rb 2mo agoThe term AGI was coined almost 30 years ago; is that when the marketers got ahold of it?
- datsci_est_2015 2mo agoI would say IBM poisoned the well with the term AI. Watson was probably the biggest inflection point, but there was stuff earlier too.
- ben_w 2mo agoI'm old enough to remember Deep Blue.
- erikerikson 2mo agoObviously not but the community has shifted its language away from AI. I did not claim we coined AGI in response to marketers.