• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    I love it when people angrily declare that something AI researchers figured out in the 60s can’t be AI because it involves algorithms.

    Using an algorithm to take a set of continuous input variables and map them to a set of continuous output variables in a way that maximizes result quality is an AI algorithm, even if it’s using a precomputed lookup table.

    AI has been a field since the 1950s. Not every technique for measuring the environment and acting on it needs to be some advanced deep learning model for it to be a product of AI research.

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      7 days ago

      Then they may as well say they did it “with computers.”
      Oh, but that’s not sexy, is it.

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        7 days ago

        I mean, no, it isn’t. It is a marketing decision after all.
        That doesn’t mean that type of thing isn’t the product of AI research.