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Dreams of AI (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A program that can deduce what groceries you need to buy is a type of AI. AI is a much broader category than the LLM stuff that everyone is currently paying attention to. Most things in the field of AI don't have particularly awe inspiring appearances, so companies don't feel compelled to advertise that it's AI because people expect AI to be "like people" which precludes the vast majority of applications.

[–] the_doktor@lemmy.zip -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

if (amount_of_bread < bread_threshold) list.bread++;

That's not AI. That's simple programming. Holy fuck, people have no idea what computing even is any more now that this sci-fi buzzword AI is out there.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think where we drifted apart was when I was paying attention to the usage of the word "anticipate".
If you run out of milk every week and buy more, an intelligent system would know to add it to the list even though you currently have milk. You also would probably want the system to figure out what bread_threshold was dynamically, rather than having to hard code it.

It kinda sounds like you're the one with the sci-fi conception of what AI is if you think that simple machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms aren't examples of it.

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'll let you in on a little secret in the field of AI as someone who's job is AI (computational linguistics); AI is, and has always been, mostly just a fancy word for algorithms, a bunch of if-else/switch/match statements. It doesn't have to be complex...

That being said, you're underestimating how much engineering would go into a program that calculates the groceries you need to buy and where/when. Especially so if it's supposed to be automated, e.g. you're not just putting in how much bread you have currently every time you use bread.