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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by codetrotter on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:29PM (#26651084)
> “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends—that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that is responsible for the progress and which is competing with humans,” he says. “We don’t have that, but people are talking as if we do.”

How much more am I as a human really than the machine learning algorithms are?

Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by nerdponx on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:44PM (#26651293)
A lot? A machine learning algorithm is a task-specific pattern matching algorithm. Sea cucumbers are probably more "intelligent" than any ML algorithm.
Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by josefx on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:03PM (#26651567)
Most are pre trained and intentionally left incapable of learning on the go. One probably would count that as a rather major issue when encountered in a human.
Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by stagger87 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:33PM (#26651129)
I guess when we understand how the brain works, we'll be able to answer this.
Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by jmfldn on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:43PM (#26651275)
Fundamentally different I would say. I understand enough about the brain to say that talking about any kind of machine intelligence in relation to brains, is comparing apples and oranges. Its not computing things in any way analogous to how a computer works. Why would it be?

Of course, computers might be able to imitate some things and far exceed some things that our brains do. That's different though.

Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by stagger87 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:55PM (#26651440)
I guess when we understand how the brain works, we can determine if your statements are true.
Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by hervature on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:31PM (#26651961)
I get that you comment is tongue in cheek, but your brain doesn’t have a clock signal. Easily verifiable and we could easily detect it if it did. Thus, computers are fundamentally different than brains. Also, computers have nearly perfect recall and perform arithmetic much better than humans. So both statements of GP are true.
Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by 256lie on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:33PM (#26651989)
How much more of a human are you than a radio? A computer?