Re:Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an arti...
by mst on Thursday April 16, 2015 @11:43AM
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Isn't machine learning a first step towards "how to train itself" ?
Honestly, I would say "chatbot" is a class of primitive AI - I'd also class Eliza as an (extremely) primitive AI.
I feel like you're making a distinction without a difference because you have some arbitrary barrier in mind for "sufficiently non-primitive to have earned the term AI" and are then applying that.
Would "a chatbot with primitive AI capabilities" seem like a reasonable compromise definition?
Honestly, I would say "chatbot" is a class of primitive AI - I'd also class Eliza as an (extremely) primitive AI.
I feel like you're making a distinction without a difference because you have some arbitrary barrier in mind for "sufficiently non-primitive to have earned the term AI" and are then applying that.
Would "a chatbot with primitive AI capabilities" seem like a reasonable compromise definition?