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Re:AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ an... by nerdponx on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:14AM (#36940996)
We've also been using the term Machine Learning for a long time to try to avoid this. Using "AI" where "ML" would suffice is just trying to cash in on recent hype for clicks.

Still an interesting result of course.

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Re:AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ an... by fluidcruft on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:47AM (#36941790)
My understanding is "ML" came into existence after the term "AI" became an untouchable and disrespectful dirty word in academia after a previous hype cycle went bust. Statisticians wouldn't be caught dead working on "AI". See also xkcd purity scale (435).
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Re:AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ an... by Kye on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:00AM (#36942579)
It looks like machine learning took over in the 2010s after a long convergence starting in the 2000s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=artificial+int...

This is from published books, so probably less affected by popular narratives. For that, we have Google Trends!

It looks like they trade places repeatedly when constrained to news searches: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all_2008...

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Re:AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ an... by nerdponx on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:12AM (#36942779)
Right. ML is less likely to arouse emotions in either direction.
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Re:AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ an... by 6D794163636F756 on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:04PM (#36948794)
It's also a refinement on the term. AI can include a lot while ML is much more specific.
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Re:AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ an... by jjcon on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:51AM (#36953127)
Not really though it may seem that way. Not all AI is ML. There are a ton of things within AI such as planning algorithms or Expert Systems. Again those are under the academic discipline of AI but not in the subfield of ML.
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