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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You are not alone in that confusion. Ai is whatever a machine can't do at the moment. That is a famous paradox.

For example for years some philosophers claimed a computer could never beat the human masters of chess. They argued that you need a kind of intelligence for that, which machines cannot develop.

Turns out chess programs are relatively easy. Some time after that the unbeatable goal was Go. So many possibilities in Go. No machine can conquer that! Turns out they can.

Another unbeatable goal was natural language which we kinda solved now or are in the process of.

It's strange in the actual field of computer science we call all of the above AI while a lot of the public wants to call none that. My guess is it's just humans being conceited and arrogant. No machine (and no other animal mind you) is like us or can be like us (literally something you can read in peer reviewed philosophy texts).