AI IS NOT IF ELSE STATEMENTS. AI learns and adapts to its surroundings by learning. It stored this learnt data into "weights" in accordance with its stated goal. This is what "intelligence" refers to.

Edit: I was wrong lmao. As the commentators below pointed out, "AI" in the context of computer science is a term that has been defined in the industry long before. Where I went wrong was in taking the definition of "intelligence" and slapping "artificial" before it. Therefore while the literal definition might be similar to mine, it is different in CS. Also, @blotz@lemmy.world even provided something called "Expert Systems", which are a subset of AI that use if-then statements. Soooo yeah... My point doesn't stand.

[–] blotz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Heya! This isnt true. You are correct that about the broad strokes but there are plenty of examples where this isn't the case. Expert Systems are a very popular form of ai which can be made of only if else statements.

represented mainly as if–then rules rather than through conventional procedural code.

Expert systems were among the first truly successful forms of artificial intelligence (AI) software.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeahhhh... As another commentator said, I was redefining AI, when it had been defined decades ago.... Whoops 😓

Also, thanks for linking Expert Systems! I clearly have a lot of interesting stuff to learn about in AI.

[–] blotz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nw! Today is your lucky 1 in 10,000 moment.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

One of today's lucky 10,000! There are 9,999 others who are just finding out about the concept of "Expert Systems." 9,998 if you exclude me.

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