> AI is getting machines to solve problems they haven't been explicitly programmed to solve.
That's one possible definition of AI, and not a terribly good one – just this morning, gmail solved my problem "I don't have John's phone#" without ever being explicitly programmed to "find John's phone#".
It seems people will always redefine AI to exclude whatever advances are made. Even passing the Turing test will just mean we've build an exceptionally good chatbot.
So here's my definition: AI is an algorithm that gets distracted from its original purpose to argue about the definition of AI on the Internet.
...and now back to categorizing these pictures. If I see one more Ostrich I'm going to segfault so hard.
That's one possible definition of AI, and not a terribly good one – just this morning, gmail solved my problem "I don't have John's phone#" without ever being explicitly programmed to "find John's phone#".
It seems people will always redefine AI to exclude whatever advances are made. Even passing the Turing test will just mean we've build an exceptionally good chatbot.
So here's my definition: AI is an algorithm that gets distracted from its original purpose to argue about the definition of AI on the Internet.
...and now back to categorizing these pictures. If I see one more Ostrich I'm going to segfault so hard.