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[–] [email protected] 138 points 10 months ago (75 children)

We really need to stop calling things "AI" like it's an algorithm. There's image recognition, collective intelligence, neural networks, path finding, and pattern recognition, sure, and they've all been called AI, but functionally they have almost nothing to do with each other.

For computer scientists this year has been a sonofabitch to communicate through.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (13 children)

I think you're fighting a losing battle.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (11 children)

You're right, but so is the previous poster. Actual AI doesn't exist yet, and when/if it does it's going to confuse the hell out of people who don't get the hype over something we've had for years.

But calling things like machine learning algorithms "AI" definitely isn't going away... we'll probably just end up making a new term for it when it actually becomes a thing... "Digital Intelligence" or something. /shrug.

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