Artificial Intelligence
Computers aren't "intelligent". But you can program them to learn patterns from data, in pretty limited ways.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-11-12 |
AI (Artificial Intelligence) isn't what people think it is, and we're not nearly as advanced as the laypeople think, and the others prey upon that ignorance for scares, clicks and attention. This is a little primer on the terms, what it can and can't do. And where it still needs to go.
In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans. So far, computers have no intelligence: they can't learn (we'll get into machine learning in a minute), intuit, and process information that they haven't been programmed to process. They can mimic some cognitive function that humans associate with the human mind, but it's still mostly looking up data that's already been fed to it, which isn't the same being able to understand what something might be, that it's never seen/learned before. In other words, I can teach a child about basic genetics, and a little about dog breeds, and if they see a new breed that looks half way between two others, they can guess how that happened. No computer can. They can do tricks that make people think they can, but it isn't the same thing.
History of AI[edit source]
A brief history of AI might be as follows. Since programming computers is hugely time consuming, we started wondering if we could make them mimic our ability to learn.
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Kinds of AI[edit source]
During the process of creating these ideas on AI, there's the human perception problem. As they say, if your only tool is a hammer, every problem will look like a nail. While driving screws with a hammer might kinda work, but it's not really the optimal solution. And each discipline, psychologists, philosophy, robotics, neurobiology, speech/linguistics, data processing/analysis, and mathematicians, were all blind men who had their own perceptions of an elephant, trying to recreate that elephant with different mediums. Some of the approaches to AI were things like:
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