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Re:Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI by Nimitz14 on Monday June 25, 2018 @06:43PM (#17396459)
> There was a time, a bit longer ago, when beam search and A* were considered AI.

Yeah, maybe the marketing people said that..

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Re:Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI by makapuf on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:19PM (#17396643)
Well in game design you still call them AI. Of course this use of AI does not impress anyone per se, it's just a name and not a selling point.
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