Thread: Artificial Intelligence

Everything is AI these days, including simple algorithms. I would limit the term AI to computers that can learn or as previously mentioned, thinking machines.

Originally Posted by MB

Everything is AI these days, including simple algorithms. I would limit the term AI to computers that can learn or as previously mentioned, thinking machines.

Originally Posted by vulcannz

Technically speaking we're not even at the Machine Learning stage yet. The current AI is just a marketing term for more comprehensive automation taking advantage of more compute power than we have seen in the past. And quantum computing is not going to do much for AI, it has a very narrow set of limits at what it is good at.

I agree, I think a better term for it is 'Simulated Intelligence'. Ultimately what is currently purported as AI only has as much emotion or ability to reflect as what a casio calculator has.
But it is very very good at averaging out a huge amount of data in order to make words that make sense.

I actually think the watershed moment that is generally being missed is that AI allows computers to cope with poor syntax or opaque questions. It has allowed computers to mostly do what we always imagined they would. You no longer have to type in the right characters in the right order to get something intelligible back. But you may get something completely fabricated