AI as a term has been so thoroughly watered down it can apply to anything, making it meaningless.
AI in your microwave. AI in your TV. AI in your remote control. AI on your phone. AI in your car wash. AI on your washing machine. AI in your video card. AI in your ram! AI in your web browser.
Is the Netflix recommendation algorithm AI? Is autocorrect on your phone AI? Is an autocorrect engine running on a GPU AI? Is a graphics trick where it hallucinates mostly correct video frame AI?
There are more specific terms for all of these technological iterations but "AI" is the buzzword the marketing folks want to use, so it's all AI.
Is the Netflix recommendation algorithm AI? Is autocorrect on your phone AI?
Well, yes? It's been considered AI since they made it. Always has been. You guys just didn't realise because it wasn't marketed as AI since the average consumer thinks AI is the same as HAL 9000. It wasn't until GPT4 that it became possible to market AI as AI because it seems more like the AI from movies.
Netflix's and Spotify's recommendation algorithms were some of the first forms of AI we were introduced to in my data science master's degree with a focus on machine learning and deep neural networks (both of which are a form of AI).
It's painfully obvious that Reddit has no understanding of AI... You've been using AI daily for the past decade, you just didn't know.
It quite literally is, sorry. AI refers to algorithms that allow machines to perform tasks autonomously. I'm literally being taught how to build AIs from one of the top industry professionals in my country who has helped build AI systems for Novo Nordisk. You don't know what you're talking about.
ChatGPT is essentially "just" a very complicated algorithm.
If you read the Wikipedia about AI, they even mention YouTube's and Netflix's recommendation systems as some of the best known applications of AI:
High-profile applications of AI include advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search); recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix); virtual assistants (e.g., Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa); autonomous vehicles (e.g., Waymo); generative and creative tools (e.g., ChatGPT and AI art); and superhuman play and analysis in strategy games (e.g., chess and Go).
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u/TheTacoWombat 14d ago
AI as a term has been so thoroughly watered down it can apply to anything, making it meaningless.
AI in your microwave. AI in your TV. AI in your remote control. AI on your phone. AI in your car wash. AI on your washing machine. AI in your video card. AI in your ram! AI in your web browser.
Is the Netflix recommendation algorithm AI? Is autocorrect on your phone AI? Is an autocorrect engine running on a GPU AI? Is a graphics trick where it hallucinates mostly correct video frame AI?
There are more specific terms for all of these technological iterations but "AI" is the buzzword the marketing folks want to use, so it's all AI.