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Re:Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger S... by jqpabc123 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:00AM (#32648847)
It's an oldie but goodie --- but still a scam.

Selling what we call a computer as "intelligent" is like selling a DVD player as "creative" for it's ability to produce video. They are both just play back devices --- reproducing the work of others. Useful for sure but no more "intelligent" or "creative" than a hammer.

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Re:Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger S... by kadoban on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:45PM (#32656128)
What would you call the field of Artificial Intelligence then? I can't think of anything.
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Re:Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger S... by jqpabc123 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:09PM (#32657168)
Pattern Recognition? Automated Learning? Adaptive Software?
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Re:Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger S... by jqpabc123 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:07AM (#32663048)
A new one that I'm kinda fond of --- Probabilistic Programming.

Any answer that "AI" provides has no assurance of correctness. It's up to you to judge if the probability is acceptable.

Do you really want to trust a self driving vehicle that misinterprets it's environment 20% of the time?

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Re:Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger S... by kadoban on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @02:33PM (#32666411)
That's not a property of all AI techniques though, so calling the whole field by that seems very misleading.
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Re:Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger S... by jqpabc123 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:08PM (#32666907)
Intelligence is not a property of all "AI" either.
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Re:Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger S... by kadoban on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:48PM (#32665799)
None of those really cover much of the field.

AI also includes things like expert systems, which don't autmatically learn, adapt to much or recognize any patterns.

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Re:Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger S... by jqpabc123 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:02PM (#32666842)
These type of systems are just a database with a multi-factor weighted search of some sort. Any "intelligence" involved comes directly from the real experts who set the weighting parameters and the user who interprets the results
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Re:Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger S... by kadoban on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:16PM (#32667773)
Even if true, that doesn't make any of those other names fit any better.

The AI name works for me because it is goal oriented. Artificial Intelligence is implementing artificial systems that perform tasks that would otherwise require an intelligence (eg a human) to perform.

It doesn't really specify how you do that, it's just about what you're having it do.

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