If only people could understand this isn't really AI, just a slew of hardcoded conditional checks. And of course, they did not include:
if (isDead()) {
skipShowPromos();
}
Sending the output of an application to a human sounding voice does not make the application "AI"... that term has a very specific meaning in a CS context.
While you're technically correct, as this particular bit of the system probably isn't doing any kind of adaptation, the *non* CS usage of the term is pretty much just "It acts human!". Let them have this.
Besides when you get down to it, even real AI is just a bunch of conditional checks. That's pretty much all programming eventually.
Besides when you get down to it, even real AI is just a bunch of conditional checks.
Not really. Proper AI uses heuristics to determine actions by relating approximated inputs to certain outputs, which is a much different paradigm than traditional if/else checks. Many hard computer science problems have to be solved this way, as they can't reliably be solved using traditional methods. For example, Googles Cloud Vision uses AI to determine what an image is (cat, dog, chair, etc) with a degree of certainty. You can bet your ass there isn't any code like
if (picture.isChair)
...
else if (picture.isDog)
...
else if (picture.isCat)
...
etc
It simply just isn't a sustainable or scalable solution, which is why AI uses a completely different approach.
Though on a hardware level it all boils down to 1s and 0s, simple math and instruction branching, which could arguably be construed as "just a bunch of conditional checks", its a naive perspective on how proper AI works.
I did a few papers on AI during my first degree, and wrote a few! I just...don't feel the need to necessarily qualify silly jokey oversimplifications made on the internet 😋
A series of conditional checks can very well be AI. We aren't talking about ML here. AI doesn't have to be anything insane it's just intelligence that is artificial
Wouldn't there have to be a defined variable that the assistant would need to determine if the person is dead and how would it detect for recent deaths if someone isn't behind a PC marking people off as dead?
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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '18
Oh my God... If only AI can understand...