The line of were AI starts is not well-defined. If you think about it, virtually all software can be considered AI if you put expectations low enough. From the other end, one could argue that once you understand the inner workings of a piece of AI, it just becomes a fancy algorithm to you. In the end, everything is just a piece of software converting input to output.
My experience is that people tend to consider things AI whenever it feels like "magic" to them, at least in non-technical circles.
On the other hand, actual AI is kinda cut-n-paste accessible now too.
I slapped together a POC javascript tinyYolo feature detector demo last weekend (using someone else's code and pre-trained model from their github project), and joked when I showed it around that "And we can tell investors we're running AI, deep learning, and convolutional neural networks in our realtime production workflow!"...
(But as we all know, all the _proper_ magic is done by the regexes buried in that Perl module dependency hidden in a deeply nested source code directory that no-one without a grey beard is ever game to peer into...)
If you have someone doing a task manually, you could technically argue that you’re using an incredibly advanced neural network. Just not an artificial one.
I was recently joking that I was training a neural network with a water spray bottle (teaching the cat not to jump on the kitchen counter). And just while I type this, my little neural network came to walk over the keyboard...
Completely agree. If its artificial (all software) and its in some way intelligent p, or appears that way, (a lot of software, or features thereof), then you could argue its artificial intelligence, based on just those two words (ignoring the definition technical people give AI). That’s why machine learning is usually more useful from a technical discussion viewpoint.
> From the other end
Yeah, using wongarsu’s example of chess: brute forcing chess was once a highlight if AI achievement and now its just a crude search algorithm.
My experience is that people tend to consider things AI whenever it feels like "magic" to them, at least in non-technical circles.