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Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by tnecniv on Monday September 19, 2016 @01:24AM (#12529150)
There's a similar saying I like (don't know where it's from, if anywhere)

"Artificial intelligence is a group of problems that we don't know how to solve. As soon as we know how to solve one, it gets a name and is no longer AI."

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Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by MichaelBurge on Monday September 19, 2016 @02:50AM (#12529471)
People say the same thing about philosophy. That once something is well-understood, it becomes a science rather than philosophy.

I suppose this could be the same thing.

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Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by ianai on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:53AM (#12529690)
I always thought it was more once it got big enough.
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Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by dasboth on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:39AM (#12529857)
> it gets a name and is no longer AI

And that name is typically "weak AI". I wonder if we'll ever have AI that we marvel at even after we figure out how it works.

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