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We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is too complex and personal? Strangely, no
    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
      172·
      9 months ago

      Machine learning is a form of AI, much more sophisticated than if else loops that are also AI, in fact. What did you think AI was, lol?

      • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
        26·
        9 months ago

        AI is about making a system seem intelligent, by having it do human-like tasks. This is the type of machine learnig that is the opposite of that.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              9 months ago

              AI in games is not AI in the CS sense, and that’s probably where the confusion is coming from. AI in games uses the cultural definition that includes things like C3PO and whatnot, whereas AI in the CS sense is just about any algorithm that seems to learn as its environment changes, usually to find a better (more fitting) solution than the previous iteration. Game AI is generally just pathing and direct responses to stimuli, it doesn’t really learn, so players can cheese the AI pretty consistently.

              I think games using actual AI would be undesirable because it would make games involving AI much less predictable and probably way harder. It would also likely use way more compute resources.

      • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        AI has been co-opted by all the GenAI people. The number of times I’ve heard things like “AI is the next big thing for X business” and they’re only talking about GenAI is way too high.

    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      148·
      9 months ago

      Im sooooo tired of everything being called AI. Words don’t mean anything anymore. Its just a word to get clicks.

      • femtechEnglish
        181·
        9 months ago

        I mean they called bots in video game AI for decades now.

        • benni@lemmy.worldEnglish
          74·
          9 months ago

          In that case it actually makes sense because the main goal is to make an artificial entity appear intelligent to the player. This is not the same as calling all ML algorithms/models AI.

          • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            9 months ago

            These terms were coined by academics. These people feel that “learning” is part of appearing intelligent. They don’t get out much.

            • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              How would you define intelligence without including learning?

              I think you can certainly have intelligence without acadamia, but not without learning.

              Which, btw, AI doesn’t always involve.

    • asudox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Just a few years ago, AI was a simple program that had hardcoded answers and inputs in if else conditional blocks and ML was ML. After ChatGPT got popular, AI is no longer a simple if else program. The worst of all is that ML is no longer called ML.

    • Halosheep@lemm.eeEnglish
      52·
      9 months ago

      The term has been hijacked, at this point being pedantic about it is moot.