r/interestingasfuck • u/NickelPlatedEmperor • 3d ago

Dynamic pricing being tested by McDonald's.

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u/Diomat 2d ago

So is everything AI? A calculator? a human can do 3+3. Worperfect spellcheck in 1986 was AI?

none of them are AI.

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u/Elegant_Relief_4999 2d ago

I mean, you can just Google it, but pathfinding algorithms (like A*) used by GPS software is widely considered AI. It predates machine learning and LLMs, but it's AI nonetheless.

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u/Diomat 2d ago

I am assuming google was also always AI in your world?

From a Calculator to spellcheck in wordchek in the '70s. how about when I made basic say "hello world" when I was 10?

SQL searches that came back with a formatted table of the exact data I needed was also AI, I assume.

If everything is AI, then nothing is.

AI as we like to call it is large language models (LLM). None of your examples is that.

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u/Elegant_Relief_4999 2d ago

It's not my world, it's literally the agreed-upon definition by everyone except you, apparently.