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AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful (feddit.it)
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[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The term has been stolen and redefined . It's pointless to be pedantic about it at this point.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

AI traditionally meant now-mundane things like pathfinding algorithms. The only thing people seem to want Artificial Intelligence to mean is “something a computer can almost do but can’t yet”.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

AI is, by definition these days, a future technology. We think of AI as science fiction so when it becomes reality we just kick the can in the definition.