Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"
by avgcorrection on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @10:02AM
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> There are things we used to call AI, like inference engines, that were and are phenomenally successful (not to mention easier to implement). Type inference in modern programming languages, for instance, still uses the GOFAI technique of unification to solve for unspecified types of variables in a program.
Okay. I don't see how these application domains have anything to do with “AI” in the sense of something that resembles human reasoning in any given subarea (like pattern recognition, language).
There are things we used to call AI, like inference engines, that were and are phenomenally successful (not to mention easier to implement). Type inference in modern programming languages, for instance, still uses the GOFAI technique of unification to solve for unspecified types of variables in a program.
That's why I found it funny the article said "There are companies claiming their products are powered by AI, when they're really powered by IF statements." Back in the day, AI was itself powered by IF statements.