Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"
by falcor84 on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:44AM
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Not the parent, but yes, with my consumer hat on, ML is the method - how it learns is an implementation detail I shouldn't care about - while AI is the benefit - it applies something resembling intelligence to help address my needs.
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Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"
by throwaway290 on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:11AM
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The word "AI" sells consumers an abstract image of themselves as having something "intelligent" and "smart" at their service + edgy feeling of having almost person at your complete command but without(?) the moral issues of slavery.
If you take away buzzwords and apply good product design, when ML-based stuff works it's invisible powering features like "autocomplete" or "voice control" or "internet search".
Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"
by falcor84 on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:48AM
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But "autocomplete", "voice control" and "internet search" as we know them are terms that appeared relatively recently for capabilities that people even 30 years ago would have said are in the realm of sci-fi. It sounds to me like just moving-the-goalposts such that when something is proven to work well enough to have a name, it becomes "plain old tech" rather than AI. Is there any computer capability that when widely released you'd be ok with calling AI?